Physician
General Surgery
Dr. Howard S. Kaufman, MD
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Howard Kaufman practices General Surgery. He attended Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is one of the top medical schools in the US. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is ranked 3 in research and 29 in primary care medicine He received awards:"Clinical Teacher Award", "America's Top Surgeons", "Los Angeles Super Doctors", "Top Docs in San Gabriel Valley", "Upjohn Achievement Award for Clinical Research.", "George D. Zuidema Surgical Research Award", "Resident's Clinical Research Award", "W. Barry Wood Medical Student Research Award", "Alpha Omega Alpha", "Phi Beta Kappa,", "Fellow (FACS)" and "Super Doctor". Howard S. Kaufman has written publications. He has 59 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Adenocarcinoma of the duodenum: factors influencing long-term survival.' He is registered with Medicare.
Publications
- Lymph Node Harvest in Emergent versus Elective Colon Resections.
- Surgical site infection rates in laparoscopic versus open coloRectal surgery.
- Small Intestinal bacterial overgrowth in patients with lower gastroIntestinal symptoms and a history of previous abdominal surgery.
- Prospective assessment of axial back pain symptoms before and after bariatric weight reduction surgery.
- Perineal injuries at a large urban trauma center: injury patterns and outcomes.
- Effect of surgically induced weight loss on pelvic floor disorders in morbidly obese women.
- Bowel habits after gastric bypass versus the duodenal switch operation.
- Changing concepts in the pathogenesis, evaluation, and management of solitary Rectal ulcer syndrome.
- Maintenance of weight loss in patients with body mass index >60 kg/m2: importance of length of Small bowel bypassed.
- Morbid obesity adversely impacts pelvic floor function in females seeking attention for weight loss surgery.
- Percutaneous gastric drainage as a treatment for small bowel Obstruction after gastric bypass.
- Reduction in adhesive small-bowel obstruction by Seprafilm adhesion barrier after Intestinal resection.
- Perineal descent and levator ani Hernia: a dynamic magnetic resonance imaging study.
- Internet use by coloRectal surgery patients: a surgeon's tool for education and marketing.
- Radical oophorectomy with primary stapled colorectal anastomosis for resection of locally advanced epithelial ovarian Cancer.
- Computed tomography evaluation of pelvic organ prolapse. Techniques and applications.
- Preoperative predictors of blood transfusion in colorectal Cancer surgery.
- Gynecologic abnormalities in surgically treated women with stage II or III rectal Cancer.
- Fecal incontinence among morbid obese women seeking for weight loss surgery: an underappreciated association with adverse impact on quality of life.
- Palliation of colorectal Cancer.
- Sleeve gastrectomy in the high-risk patient.
- The prevalence of coloRectal neoplasia in patients with end-stage renal disease: a case-control study.
- A prospective, randomized, multicenter, controlled study of the safety of Seprafilm adhesion barrier in abdominopelvic surgery of the Intestine.
- Dynamic pelvic magnetic resonance imaging and cystocolpoproctography alter surgical management of pelvic floor disorders.
- Hospital volume can serve as a surrogate for surgeon volume for achieving excellent outcomes in coloRectal resection.
- Chemical splanchnicectomy in patients with unresectable pancreatic Cancer. A prospective randomized trial.
- Three-dimensional endoAnal ultrasonography of external Anal sphincter defects in patients with faecal incontinence: correlation with symptoms and manometry.
- Focal levator ani eventrations: detection and characterization by magnetic resonance in patients with pelvic floor dysfunction.
- Adenocarcinoma of the duodenum: factors influencing long-term survival.
- One hundred and forty-five consecutive pancreaticoduodenectomies without mortality.
- Dynamic MR imaging of pelvic organ prolapse: spectrum of abnormalities.
- Cytomegaloviral enteroColitis: clinical associations and outcome.
- Infection rates in a large investigational trial of sacral nerve stimulation for fecal incontinence.
- Sacral nerve stimulation for fecal incontinence: results of a 120-patient prospective multicenter study.
- Characterization of a Small vesicular cholesterol carrier in human gallbladder bile.
- The role of bacteria in gallbladder and common duct stone formation.
- Pancreaticoduodenectomy for benign Disease.
- Human Gallstones contain pronucleating nonmucin glycoproteins that are immunoglobulins.
- Results of salvage abdominoperineal resection for recurrent Anal carcinoma following combined chemoradiation therapy.
- Use of an implantable marker for rapid intraoperative localization of nonpalpable tumors: a pilot study in a swine coloRectal model.
- Endoscopic transanal resection provides palliation equivalent to transabdominal resection in patients with metastatic rectal Cancer.
- Assessing the teaching of procedural skills: can cognitive task Analysis add to our traditional teaching methods?
- Nitric oxide inhibits resting sphincter of Oddi activity.
- Bilirubin monoglucuronide promotes cholesterol gallstone formation.
- Short-term fasting increases biliary calcium and bilirubin.
- Backscattered electron imaging and windowless energy dispersive x-ray microAnalysis: a new technique for gallstone Analysis.
- Cholesterol nucleates rapidly from mixed micelles in the prairie dog.
- The distribution of calcium salt precipitates in the core, periphery and shell of cholesterol, black pigment and brown pigment Gallstones.
- The effect of erythromycin on motility of the duodenum, sphincter of Oddi, and gallbladder in the prairie dog.
- Laparoscopic surgery for Crohn's Disease: reasons for conversion.
- Phase II evaluation of preoperative chemoradiation and postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy for squamous cell and adenocarcinoma of the esophagus.
- Pericapsular fistula of the hip after radiation therapy and resection of a Rectal carcinoma. A case report.
- The role of laparoscopy in preoperative staging of esophageal Cancer.
- Ablation of metastatic ovarian carcinoma with the argon beam coagulator: pathologic Analysis of tumor destruction.
- Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy.
- Laparoscopy for the acute abdomen in the postoperative urologic patient.
- Measurement of urinary N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase to assess renal ischemia during laparoscopic operations.
- Parietaria: an unrecognized cause of respiratory allergy in the United States.
Schools
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Johns Hospkins Hospital
John Hopkins Hospital
Haverford College
Procedures Preformed
- Anoscopy With Removal of Anal Tumor
- Colectomy
- Destruction of Anal Tumor
- Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
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Conditions Treated
- Adrenal Gland Cancer
- Anal and Rectal Cancer
- Anal Fissure
- AnoRectal Abscess
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Clinical Teacher Award
- America's Top Surgeons
- Los Angeles Super Doctors
- Top Docs in San Gabriel Valley
- Upjohn Achievement Award for Clinical Research.
- George D. Zuidema Surgical Research Award
- Resident's Clinical Research Award
- W. Barry Wood Medical Student Research Award
- Alpha Omega Alpha
- Phi Beta Kappa,
- Fellow (FACS)
- Super Doctor
Education
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Johns Hopkins University -
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Huntington Memorial Hospital
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