Dr. Michael J. Morowitz MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
5839 S Maryland Ave Mc 4062 Chicago IL, 60637About
Dr. Michael Morowitz practices Pediatric Surgery in Chicago, IL. Dr. Morowitz treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Morowitzdiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
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SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Dieulafoy's lesion and segmental dilatation of the small bowel: an uncommon cause of gastrointestinal bleeding.
- Redefining the role of intestinal microbes in the pathogenesis of necrotizing enterocolitis.
- Gut microbial gene expression in mother-fed and formula-fed piglets.
- Pediatric surgery and the human microbiome.
- Murine gut microbiota and transcriptome are diet dependent.
- The intestinal microbiome and necrotizing enterocolitis.
- Proceedings of the 2013 A.S.P.E.N. Research workshop: the interface between nutrition and the gut microbiome: implications and applications for human health [corrected].
- Genome resolved analysis of a premature infant gut microbial community reveals a Varibaculum cambriense genome and a shift towards fermentation-based metabolism during the third week of life.
- Microbes in the neonatal intensive care unit resemble those found in the gut of premature infants.
- Acute appendicitis in children is associated with an abundance of bacteria from the phylum Fusobacteria.
- Mucosa-associated bacterial diversity in necrotizing enterocolitis.
- Development of an enhanced metaproteomic approach for deepening the microbiome characterization of the human infant gut.
- Gut bacteria are rarely shared by co-hospitalized premature infants, regardless of necrotizing enterocolitis development.
- Metaproteomics reveals functional shifts in microbial and human proteins during a preterm infant gut colonization case.
- Strain-resolved microbial community proteomics reveals simultaneous aerobic and anaerobic function during gastrointestinal tract colonization of a preterm infant.
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