
Dr. David Alan Sass MD
Gastroenterologist | Gastroenterology
3601 5th Ave Pittsburgh PA, 15213About
Dr. David Sass is a gastroenterologist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Sass 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. Sass performs colonoscopy and endoscopy procedures and provides accurate and thorough care for patients suffering from digestive issues.
Education and Training
University of Cape Town / Faculty of Health Sciences 1992
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Anticholinergic toxicity associated with lupine seeds as a home remedy for diabetes mellitus.
- Influence of estrogen deficiency and replacement on T-cell populations in rat lymphoid tissues and organs.
- Transfusion-associated falciparum malaria successfully treated with red blood cell exchange transfusion.
- Staple impaction in cervical esophagus.
- Fulminant hepatic failure.
- Fulminant hepatic failure.
- Hepatic hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.
- The ACE gene I/D polymorphism does not affect the susceptibility to or prognosis of PBC.
- Bleeding rectal varices: trouble upstream?
- Care of the cirrhotic patient. Preface.
- Education and imaging. Hepatobiliary and pancreatic: Budd-Chiari syndrome presenting as a caudate lobe pseudotumor.
- Liver disease in pregnancy.
- The impact of biopsychosocial factors on quality of life: women with primary biliary cirrhosis on waiting list and post liver transplantation.
- Hepatology update: current management and new therapies.
- Acute autoimmune hepatitis presenting with peripheral blood eosinophilia.
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