Dr. Lee Joel Levitt MD
Hematologist-Oncologist | Hematology & Oncology
751 S Bascom Ave Oncology/Hematology San Jose CA, 95128Rating
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Dr. Lee Levitt is a hematologist oncologist practicing in San Jose, CA. Dr. Levitt specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of blood diseases such as anemia, hemophilia, sickle-cell disease, leukemia and lymphoma. Hematologist Oncologists are also trained in the study of cancer and its attack on other organs.
Education and Training
Stanford Univ Sch Of Med- Stanford Ca 1974
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Streptococcus bovis septic shock due to contaminated transfused platelets.
- Production of granulocyte/macrophage-colony-stimulating factor by human natural killer cells. Modulation by the p75 subunit of the interleukin 2 receptor and by the CD2 receptor.
- Bleeding diathesis due to decreased functional activity of type 1 plasminogen activator inhibitor.
- Histidine-rich glycoprotein blocks T cell rosette formation and modulates both T cell activation and immunoregulation.
- Receptor-specific inhibition of bone marrow erythropoiesis by recombinant DNA-derived interleukin-2.
- Immunophenotypic transformation from acute undifferentiated leukemia to Burkitt's-like acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
- Evans' syndrome as a presenting manifestation of atypical paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria.
- Chlorpropamide-induced pure white cell aplasia.
- Cellular immunoabsorption using monoclonal antibodies. Selective removal of T cells from peripheral blood and bone marrow.
- The effect of lithium on murine hematopoiesis in a liquid culture system.
- Further studies on the mechanism of marrow granulocytic hyperplasia in mice chronically injected with endotoxin.
- CNS involvement in the non-Hodgkin's lymphomas.
- Utilization of mouse stem cell-depleted marrow in the study of diffusion chamber myelopoiesis.
- Involvement of CD31 in lymphocyte-mediated immune responses: importance of the membrane-proximal immunoglobulin domain and identification of an inhibiting CD31 peptide.
Fellowships
- Hematology 1979
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