Professor, Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Endocrinology
Dr. Lewis S. Blevins Jr., MD
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Doctor Lewis S. Blevins Jr., MD practices Endocrinology. He went to University of Alabama Medical Center. University of Alabama Medical Center is ranked 37/17 in Research/PrimaryCare. Lewis Blevins is a published doctor. He published 32 publications, including: 'Abscess formation in a non-functioning pituitary adenoma.' Lewis Blevins accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Approach to the postoperative patient with Cushing's disease.
- Incidence of headache as a presenting complaint in over 1000 patients with sellar lesions and factors predicting postoperative improvement.
- A predictive algorithm for evaluating elevated serum prolactin in patients with a sellar mass.
- Hypophysitis: a single-center case series.
- Rate and time course of improvement in endocrine function after more than 1000 pituitary operations.
- Extended endoscopic endonasal approach for suprasellar Rathke's cleft cysts.
- Morbidity of repeat transsphenoidal surgery assessed in more than 1000 operations.
- Cavernous and inferior petrosal sinus sampling and dynamic magnetic resonance imaging in the preoperative evaluation of Cushing's disease.
- Factors predicting postoperative hyponatremia and efficacy of hyponatremia management strategies after more than 1000 pituitary operations.
- Use of conivaptan for management of hyponatremia following surgery for Cushing's disease.
- Socioeconomic factors associated with pituitary apoplexy.
- A Comprehensive Long-Term Retrospective Analysis of Silent Corticotrophic Adenomas versus Hormone-Negative Adenomas.
- Use of intravenous conivaptan in neurosurgical patients with hyponatremia from Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion.
- Suprasellar Rathke cleft cysts: clinical presentation and treatment outcomes.
- Excess mortality for patients with residual disease following resection of pituitary adenomas.
- Long term outcome following repeat transsphenoidal surgery for recurrent endocrine-inactive pituitary adenomas.
- Utility of the immediate postoperative cortisol concentrations in patients with Cushing's disease.
- An approach to the management of patients with residual Cushing's disease.
- Diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas of hypercortisolemia during pregnancy: a case report.
- Pre-operative dopamine agonist therapy improves post-operative tumor control following prolactinoma resection.
- Prevalence of valvular heart disease in a cohort of patients taking cabergoline for management of hyperprolactinemia.
- Malignant pheochromocytoma of the organ of Zuckerkandl requiring aortic and vena caval reconstruction.
- Markedly impaired fibrinolytic balance contributes to cardiovascular risk in adults with Growth hormone deficiency.
- Visual vignette. Hypopituitarism with central Diabetes insipidus attributable to traumatic brain injury.
- Disorders of water metabolism following transsphenoidal pituitary surgery: a single institution's experience.
- Ectopic adrenocorticotropic Hormone hypersecretion due to a primary pulmonary paraganglioma.
- Treatment of adult patients with congenital Adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency: a clinical practice audit.
- Immunohistochemical localization of carboxypeptidases D, E, and Z in pituitary adenomas and normal human pituitary.
- Pitfalls to avoid while interpreting Thyroid function tests: five illustrative cases.
- Hypertension in an adolescent boy.
- Abscess formation in a non-functioning pituitary adenoma.
Schools
East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine
University Ala Hospital
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Conditions Treated
- Acromegaly and Gigantism
- Adrenal Insufficiency
- Craniopharyngioma
- Cushing's Syndrome
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Doctors Specialties
- Endocrinology
Accepted Insurances
Education
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Johns Hopkins University -
University of Alabama Medical Center -
East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine
Hospital
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UCSF Medical Center
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