Dr. Donald Francis Kirby M.D.
Gastroenterologist | Gastroenterology
9500 Euclid Ave A51 Cleveland OH, 44195About
Dr. Donald Kirby is a gastroenterologist practicing in Cleveland, OH. Dr. Kirby 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. Kirby performs colonoscopy and endoscopy procedures and provides accurate and thorough care for patients suffering from digestive issues.
Education and Training
Mechanical Engineering 1979
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Nutrition and sports supplements: fact or fiction.
- Management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: weight control.
- Herbal remedies in gastroenterology.
- Epidemiology of bloodstream infections in patients receiving long-term total parenteral nutrition.
- Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) placement in the overweight and obese patient.
- As the stomach churns--or not!
- The multidisciplinary approach to the care of patients with intestinal failure at a tertiary care facility.
- Difficulty swallowing solid foods; food 'getting stuck in the chest'.
- Intestinal failure management at the Cleveland Clinic.
- Use of home parenteral nutrition in patients with intra-abdominal desmoid tumors.
- Never say never again.
- Nutrition in the stroke patient.
- Ethanol lock therapy in reducing catheter-related bloodstream infections in adult home parenteral nutrition patients: results of a retrospective study.
- Impact of a national shortage of sterile ethanol on a home parenteral nutrition practice: a case series.
- Improving outcomes with parenteral nutrition.
Treatments
- Crohn's Disease
- Malnutrition
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