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Dr. Robert J Kania MD
Gastroenterologist | Gastroenterology
4815 Liberty Ave Suite M58 Pittsburgh PA, 15224About
Dr. Robert Kania is a gastroenterologist practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Kania 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. Kania performs colonoscopy and endoscopy procedures and provides accurate and thorough care for patients suffering from digestive issues.
Education and Training
Loyola Univ of Chicago Stritch Sch of Med, Maywood Il 1967
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine 1967
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Combined interferon, famciclovir and GM-CSF treatment of HBV infection in an individual with periarteritis nodosa.
- Laparoscopic transgastric endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography for benign common bile duct stricture after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.
- Treatment of hepatitis C virus in elderly persons with interferon alpha.
- Interferon-alpha can be used successfully in patients with hepatitis C virus-positive chronic hepatitis who have a psychiatric illness.
- Ileal intussusception and obstruction as presentation of inflammatory fibroid polyp.
- The Oklahoma-Pittsburgh experience with interferon alpha in the treatment of HCV disease.
- Chronic hepatitis C in patients with normal or near normal alanine aminotransferase levels: the role of interferon alpha 2b therapy.
- Successful empiric treatment of HSV hepatitis in pregnancy. Case report and review of the literature.
- New approach to HCV treatment. Recognition of disease process as systemic viral infection rather than as liver disease.
- A preliminary experience with GM-CSF plus interferon in patients with HBV and HCV resistant to interferon therapy.
- Lamivudine treatment of advanced and decompensated liver disease due to hepatitis B.
- Treatment of chronic hepatitis C in individuals with pre-existing or confounding neuropsychiatric disease.
Treatments
- Obesity
- Acid Reflux
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Colon Polyps
- Gastritis
- Diverticulosis
- Pain
Dr. Robert J Kania MD's Practice location
Practice At 4815 Liberty Ave Suite M58
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4800 FRIENDSHIP AVENUE PITTSBURGH PA 15224UPMC PRESBYTERIAN SHADYSIDEl
200 LOTHROP STREET PITTSBURGH PA 15213