Dr. Alexander B. Levitov M.D.
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
825 Fairfax Ave Suite 445 Norfolk VA, 23507About
Dr. Alexander Levitov is a critical care surgeon practicing in Norfolk, VA. Dr. Levitov specializes in the needs of critically ill surgical patients. Critical care surgeons are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care surgeon, Dr. Levitov has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
Education and Training
First Moscow Sechenov Med Institute Moscow Russia 1977
Moscow Medical Institute Of Health Ministry 1977
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Critical Care Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Detection of subcutaneous and intramuscular air with sonography: a sensitive and specific modality.
- Extensive cerebral venous sinus thrombosis following a dose increase in eltrombopag in a patient with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.
- Shear wave elastography for evaluation of liver fibrosis.
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- [2-dimensional echocardiography in ischemic heart disease].
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