Dr. Mark Isaac Avigan M.D.
Gastroenterologist | Gastroenterology
10903 New Hampshire Ave. Bldg 22, Rm 3478 Silver Spring MD, 20902About
Dr. Mark Avigan is a gastroenterologist practicing in Silver Spring, MD. Dr. Avigan 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. Avigan 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- Gastroenterology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Using controlled clinical trials to learn more about acute drug-induced liver injury.
- A far upstream element stimulates c-myc expression in undifferentiated leukemia cells.
- Needs for an expanded ontology-based classification of adverse drug reactions and related mechanisms.
- Validity of diagnostic codes to identify cases of severe acute liver injury in the US Food and Drug Administration's Mini-Sentinel Distributed Database.
- Profiling cumulative proportional reporting ratios of drug-induced liver injury in the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database.
- DILI and drug development: a regulatory perspective.
- The clinical liver safety assessment best practices workshop: rationale, goals, accomplishments and the future.
- Treatment of chronic type B hepatitis with multiple ten-day courses of adenine arabinoside monophosphate.
- Scientific and Regulatory Perspectives in Herbal and Dietary Supplement Associated Hepatotoxicity in the United States.
- Liver injury associated with dimethyl fumarate in multiple sclerosis patients.
- A short course of prednisolone in chronic type B hepatitis. Report of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
- A newly identified tyrosine kinase is preferentially expressed in the gastrointestinal tract.
- Hepatocyte growth factor stimulates invasion across reconstituted basement
- High-resolution chromoendoscopy for the diagnosis of diminutive colon polyps: implications for colon cancer screening.
- The apical membranes of maturing gut columnar epithelial cells contain the enzymatically active form of a newly identified fyn-related tyrosine kinase.
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