Uma Murthy, MD
Appointed 07/01/85
Upstate University Hospital - Downtown Campus
750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
315 464-5440
750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
315 464-5440
Hospital Campus
Clinical Section Affiliations
- Medicine: Gastroenterology
Research Programs and Affiliations
- Medicine
Education & Fellowships
- Residency: Coney Island Hospital, 1981
- MD: St. John's Medical College, Bangalore University, India, 1975
Clinical Interests
- Clinical and Laboratory Studies of Helicobacter Pylori Gastritis; Barretts Esophagus; Long-Term Histological Changes
Specialties & Certification
- Gastroenterology
Diseases & Conditions Treated
- AVM - GI Vessel
- Abdominal Pain
- Achalasia
- Acute Pancreatitis
- Alcoholic Fatty Liver
- Anal Fissure
- Anal Sphincter Tear
- Anemia
- Angiodysplasia of Intestine
- Ascites, Malignant
- Barretts Esophagitis
- Bowel Incontinence
- Bright Red Blood per Rectum
- Celiac Disease
- Chest Pain (Lung Related)
- Cholelithiasis
- Chronic Pancreatitis
- Cirrhosis
- Colitis, Unspecified
- Color Blindness
- Constipation
- Cough
- Crohn's Disease
- Diarrhea
- Diverticular Disease
- Duodenal Ulcer
- Dyspepsia
- Dysphagia
- Early Satiety
- Esophageal Cancer
- Esophageal Dysmotility
- Esophageal Stricture
- Esophageal Ulcer
- Esophageal Varices
- Esophagitis
- Familial Adenomatous Polyposis
- Fatigue
- Fecal Impaction
- Fecal Urgency
- GI Bleed
- Gallstones
- Gardner Syndrome
- Gastritis
- Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases
- Gastroparesis
- Guaiac Positive Stool
- Heartburn
- Hemorrhoids
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatoma, Malignant
- Hiatal Hernia
- Incomplete Defecation
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
- Intestinal Obstruction
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Jaundice
- Liver Transplant
- Malabsorption, Intestinal
- Melena
- Nausea and Vomiting
- Pancreatic Cyst
- Pancreatic Mass
- Portal Hypertension
- Pouchitis
- Proctalgia Fugax
- Proritis Ani
- Rectal Pain
- Stomach Flu
- Stomach Ulcer
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Weight Loss
Treats
- Adults
Treatments/Services
- Agile Capsule
- Anorectal Manometry
- Anoscopy
- Biliary Manometry
- Capsule Endoscopy
- Colonoscopy
- EGD (Upper Endoscopy)
- Endoscopic Argon Plasma Coagulation
- Esophageal Manometry Test
- Esophageal pH Test - 24-Hour
- Esophageal pH Test - 48-Hour
- Esophagoscopy
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Ileoscopy
- Lactose and Glucose Hydrogen Breath Test
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
- PillCam Esophageal and PillCam Small Bowel
- Stool Occult Blood Testing
Publications
Link to PubMed (Opens new window. Close the PubMed window to return to this page.)
Research Abstract
Selected References
Chey WD, Metz DC, Shaw S,Kearney D, Mantagne J, and Murthy U. (2000) Appropriate timing of the 14C-urea breath test to establish eradication of H. pylori infection. Am. J. Gastroenterol. 95:1171-1174.Chey WD, Chatadi RV, Montagne J, Ahmed F, and Murthy U. (2001)Intragastric acidification reduces the occurrence of false negative urea breath test results in patients taking a proton pump inhibitor. Am. J. Gastroenterol. 97:1028-1032.
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