Dr. Thomas Oliver Kovacs MD
Gastroenterologist | Gastroenterology
200 Medical Plaza #365,530,420,120 Los Angeles CA, 90095Rating
3/5
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Dr. Thomas Kovacs is a gastroenterologist practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Kovacs specializes in the digestive system and its diseases that affect the gastrointestinal tract, which include organs from the mouth to the anus as well as liver disorders. Gastroenterology includes conditions such as hepatitis, peptic ulcer disease, colitis, nutritional problems and irritable bowel syndrome. Dr. Kovacs performs colonoscopy and endoscopy procedures and provides accurate and thorough care for patients suffering from digestive issues.
Education and Training
Mc Gill Univ- Fac Of Med- Montreal- Que- Canada 1977
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Lansoprazole in the treatment of heartburn in patients without erosive oesophagitis.
- Double-blind comparison of lansoprazole 15 mg, lansoprazole 30 mg and placebo as maintenance therapy in patients with healed duodenal ulcers resistant to H2-receptor antagonists.
- Urgent colonoscopy for the diagnosis and treatment of severe diverticular hemorrhage.
- Rabeprazole produces rapid, potent, and long-acting inhibition of gastric acid secretion in subjects with Helicobacter pylori infection.
- Omeprazole 40 mg once a day is equally effective as lansoprazole 30 mg twice a day in symptom control of patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GERD) who are resistant to conventional-dose lansoprazole therapy-a prospective, randomized, mul
- Comparing lansoprazole and omeprazole in onset of heartburn relief: results of a randomized, controlled trial in erosive esophagitis patients.
- Comparison of the efficacy of pantoprazole vs. nizatidine in the treatment of erosive oesophagitis: a randomized, active-controlled, double-blind study.
- Recent advances in the endoscopic diagnosis and therapy of upper gastrointestinal, small intestinal, and colonic bleeding.
- Rabeprazole is superior to omeprazole for the inhibition of peptone meal-stimulated gastric acid secretion in Helicobacter pylori-negative subjects.
- Endoscopic treatment of acute esophageal variceal bleeding.
- Regulation of gastric acid secretion by gastrin in duodenal ulcer patients and healthy subjects.
- Small Bowel Bleeding.
- Cholecystokinin receptor antagonist MK-329 blocks intestinal fat-induced inhibition of meal-stimulated gastric acid secretion.
- Endoscopic treatment of ulcer bleeding.
- Lansoprazole for long-term maintenance therapy of erosive esophagitis: double-blind comparison with ranitidine.
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