Henry Anthony Pitt MD

PubMed

• Surgical Opioid Stewardship: From the Epidemic, Through the Pandemic, and Beyond.
  Sourav K Podder, Scott Koeneman, Alexander M Fagenson, Christine Schleider, Matthew M Philp
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2025-04-01
• 1 citations
  International differences in the selection and outcome of minimally invasive and open distal pancreatectomy: A transatlantic analysis.
  Karin U Johansen, Simone Augustinus, Ulrich F Wellner, Bodil Andersson, Joal D Beane
  Surgery. 2025-03-06
• Ideal Outcome after Left Pancreatectomy in North America, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
  Tessa E Hendriks, Simone Augustinus, Bodil Andersson, Caroline Williamson, Joal D Beane
  Annals of Surgery. 2025-02-21

Journal Articles

• Tokyo Guidelines 2018: Antimicrobial Therapy for Acute Cholangitis and Cholecystitis  
  Henry A Pitt, Daniel J Deziel, Joseph S Solomkin, Steven M Strasberg, Journal of Hepato‐Biliary‐Pancreatic Sciences
• Gentamicin levels in the human biliary tract.  
  Pitt HA, Johnson WD, Roberts RB, J Inf Dis 127(3): 229 302
• Factors influencing mortality in the treatment of pyogenic hepatic abscess.  
  Pitt HA, Zuidema GD, Surg Gynecol Obstet 140: 228 34
• Cardiovascular and metabolic manifestations of heat stroke and severe heat exhaustion.  
  Costrini AM, Pitt HA, Gustafson AB, Uddin DE, Am J Med 66: 296 302
• Vitamin C prophylaxis in marine recruits.  
  Pitt HA, Costrini AM, JAMA 241: 908¬-11
• Sodium chlorate dissolution of retained biliary stones: Mortality rate following intrahepatic infusion.  
  Pitt HA, Cameron JL, Surgery 85: 457 60
• Postoperative T tube cholangiography: Is antibiotic coverage necessary?  
  Pitt HA, Postier RG, Cameron JL, Ann Surg 192: 356 64
• Prophylactic antibiotics in vascular surgery: Topical, systemic, or both?  
  Pitt HA, Postier RG, MacGowan WAL, Frank LW, Surmak AG, Sitzmann JV, Bouchier¬Hayes D, Ann Surg 192: 356 64
• Altera¬tions in biliary tract motility during cholesterol gallstone formation.  
  Roslyn JJ, Pitt HA, Kuchenbecker S, DenBesten L, Polarek JW, Surg Forum 31: 205 06
• Invited commentary: Pyogenic liver abscess.  
  Pitt HA, World J Surg 4: 376 78
• The diagnosis of jaundice.  
  Pitt HA, West J Med 133:504
• Factors affecting mortal¬ity in biliary tract surgery.  
  Pitt HA, Cameron JL, Postier RG, Gadacz TR, Am J Surg 141: 66 72
• The differing effect of early and chronic cholelithiasis on hepatic bile lithogenicity.  
  Roslyn JJ, Kuchenbecker SL, DenBesten L, Pitt HA, Polarek JW, Am J Surg 141: 34 39
• Invited commentary: The effect of vagotomy on exocrine pancrea¬tic and biliary secretion in man" by Smith RB, Johnson D.  
  Pitt HA, Am J Surg 141: 46
• Effects of cholecystokinin on gallbladder stasis and cholesterol gallstone formation.  
  Roslyn JJ, DenBesten L, Pitt HA, Kuchenbecker SL, Polarek JW, J Surg Res 30: 200 04
• The role of cystic duct resistance in the pathogenesis of cholesterol gallstones.  
  Pitt HA, Roslyn JJ, Kuchenbecker SL, Doty JE, DenBesten L, J Surg Res 30: 508 14
• The role of altered extra¬hepatic biliary function in the pathogenesis of gallstones following vagotomy.  
  Pitt HA, Doty JE, Roslyn JJ, DenBesten L, Surgery 90: 418 25
• The effect of gall¬bladder filling and cholecystokinin on the prairie dog sphincter of Oddi.  
  Doty JE, Pitt HA, Kuchenbecker SL, Denbesten L, Surg Forum 32: 148 50
• Salicylate prevents gallbladder stasis and cholesterol gallstones in the prairie dog.  
  Kuchenbecker SL, Doty JE, Pitt HA, DenBesten L, Surg Forum 32: 154 55
• The interaction of chenodeoxycholic acid and dietary cholesterol in the treatment of cholesterol gallstones.  
  Doty JE, DenBesten L, Roslyn JJ, Pitt HA, Kuchenbecker SL, Porter Fink V, Am J Surg 143: 48 54
• Biliary bacteria: Significance and alterations after antibiotic therapy.  
  Pitt HA, Postier RG, Cameron JL, Arch Surg 117:445 49
• The role of topical antibiotics in "high risk" biliary surgery.  
  Pitt HA, Postier RG, Gadacz TR, Cameron JL, Surgery 91: 518 22
• Altered sphincter of Oddi phasic activity following truncal vagotomy.  
  Pitt HA, Doty JE, DenBesten L, Kuchenbecker SL, J Surg Res 32: 598¬-607
• Factors influencing outcome in postoperative biliary strictures.  
  Pitt HA, Miyamoto T, Parapatis SK, Tompkins RK, Longmire WP, Jr, Am J Surg 144: 14 21
• Invited commentary: Usefulness of diagnostic tests for biliary obstruction by Thomas MJ, Pellegrini CA, Way LW.  
  Pitt HA, Am J Surg 144: 107 08
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Books/Book Chapters

• Critical Surgical Illness. 
  Chapter: Suppurative cholangitis 
  Page 380 - 408Pitt HA, Longmire WP, JrEditors: Hardy JD.WB Saunders Co, PhiladelphiaEdition 2nd,
• Current Gastroenterology. 
  Chapter: Gastrointestinal Surgery 
  Page 291 - 464DenBesten L, Doty JE, Pitt HAEditors: Gitnick GL.Houghton Mifflin, BostonEdition 2nd,
• Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. 
  Chapter: Antibiotics in colon surgery 
  Page 289 - 309Pitt HAEditors: Shackelford RT, Zuidema GD.WB Saunders Co, PhiladelphiaEdition 2nd,
• Current Problems in Surgery. 
  Chapter: Surgical management of benign lesions of the bile ducts 
  Page 322 - 400Tompkins, RK, Pitt HA
• Peripheral Arterial Diseases: Medical and Surgical Problems. 
  Chapter: Advances in the management of foot problems in patients with diabetes 
  Page 468 - 473Williams GM, Rolley RT, Pitt HAAcademic Press, London
• Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. 
  Chapter: Hepatic abscess 
  Page 465 - 497Pitt HAEditors: Shackelford RT, Zuidema GD.WB Saunders Co, PhiladelphiaEdition 2nd,
• Surgical Practice News. 
  Chapter: The use of antibiotics in biliary tract surgery 
  Page 7 - 12Pitt HA
• Current Surgical Therapy. 
  Chapter: Antibiotic selection in biliary tract surgery 
  Page 224 - 232Pitt HAEditors: Cameron JL.BC Decker, Inc, Philadelphia
• Controversies in Gastroenterology. 
  Chapter: Is endoscopic sphincterotomy a safe and effective method for management of stones in the distal common bile duct? 
  Page 97 - 113Pitt HAEditors: Gitnick GL.Churchill Livingstone Inc, New York
• Current Diagnosis. 
  Chapter: Hepatic and perihepatic abscess 
  Page 718 - 725Pitt HA, Hiatt J, Thompson JE, JrEditors: Conn RB.WB Saunders Co, PhiladelphiaEdition 7th,
• Surgical Treatment of Digestive Disease. 
  Chapter: Cystic lesions of the liver and biliary tree 
  Page 359 - 374Doty JE, Pitt HAEditors: Moody FG.Year Book Medical Publishers, Inc, Chicago
• Surgical Treatment of Digestive Disease. 
  Chapter: Biliary sepsis and suppurative cholangitis 
  Page 359 - 374Cameron JL, Pitt HAEditors: Moody FG.Year Book Medical Publishers, Inc, Chicago
• Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. 
  Chapter: Peritonitis, intra-abdominal abscess, and retroperitoneal abscess 
  Page 781 - 835Pitt HAEditors: Shackelford RT, Zuidema GD.WB Saunders Co, PhiladelphiaEdition 2nd,
• Current Surgical Therapy. 
  Chapter: Liver abscess 
  Page 153 - 156Pitt HAEditors: Cameron JL.BC Decker, Inc, PhiladelphiaEdition 2nd,
• Current Therapy in Gastroenterology and Liver Disease. 
  Chapter: Acute cholecystitis 
  Page 433 - 437Roslyn JJ, Pitt HAEditors: Bayless TM.BC Decker, Inc, PhiladelphiaEdition 2nd,
• Problems in General Surgery. 
  Chapter: The role of percutaneous and endoscopic biliary drainage 
  Page 157 - 169Grace PA, Pitt HAEditors: ReMine WH.JB Lippincott Co, Philadelphia
• Hepatic and Biliary Cancer: Surgical and Clinical Management. 
  Chapter: Surgical resection of bile duct cancer: The UCLA experience 
  Page 339 - 356Pitt HA, Roslyn JJ, Tompkins RKEditors: Wanebo JH.Marcel Decker, Inc, New York
• Current Therapy in Internal Medicine. 
  Chapter: Acute cholecystitis 
  Page 728 - 732Roslyn JJ, Pitt HAEditors: Bayless TM, Brain MC, Cherniack RM.BC Decker, Inc, PhiladelphiaEdition 2nd,
• Surgery of the Gallbladder and Bile Ducts. 
  Chapter: Acute cholangitis 
  Page 295 - 314Pitt HA, Cameron JLEditors: Way LW, Pellegrini CA.WB Saunders Co, Philadelphia
• Advances in Surgery. 
  Chapter: Sclerosing cholangitis 
  Page 65 - 92Lillemoe KD, Pitt, HA, Cameron JLEditors: Tompkins RK.Year Book Medical Publishers, Chicago
• The Physiologic Basis of Modern Surgical Care. 
  Chapter: The jaundiced patient 
  Page 479 - 498Muller EL, Pitt HAEditors: Miller TA, Rowlands BJ.CV Mosby Co, St. Louis
• Difficult Problems in General Surgery. 
  Chapter: Retained common bile duct stones 
  Page 155 - 176Lillemoe KD, Pitt HA, Gadacz TREditors: Sawyers JL, Williams LF Jr.Year Book Medical Publishers, Chicago
• Current Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. 
  Chapter: Sclerosing cholangitis: Surgery for obstructive jaundice 
  Page 168 - 171Lillemoe KD, Pitt HA, Cameron JLEditors: Bayless TM.BC Decker, Inc, Philadelphia
• Current Surgical Therapy. 
  Chapter: Endoscopic and percutaneous biliary drainage in jaundice 
  Page 303 - 307Pitt HAEditors: Cameron JL.BC Decker, Inc, PhiladelphiaEdition 3rd,
• Current Surgical Therapy. 
  Chapter: Sclerosing cholangitis 
  Page 285 - 288Pitt HAEditors: Cameron JL.BC Decker, Inc, PhiladelphiaEdition 3rd,
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Abstracts/Posters

• Gentamicin levels in the human biliary tract.
  Pitt HA, Johnson WD, Roberts RB, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
• Postoperative T tube cholangiography: Is antibiotic coverage necessary?
  Pitt HA, Postier RG, Cameron JL, Surg Gynecol Obstet 151:146
• Factors influencing mortality in the treatment of pyogenic hepatic abscess.
  Pitt HA, Zuidema GD, Year Book of Surgery 418 20
• Vitamin C prophylaxis in marine recruits.
  Pitt HA, Costrini AM, Modern Medicine, p. 53
• Infectious agents in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): A status report.
  Cave D, Kirsner J, McLaren L, Strickland R, Phillips A, Auslander M, Sachar D, Janowitz H, Shorter R, Bartlett J, Pitt HA, Ferrari B, Jones M, Gitnick G, Gastroenterology 78:1158
• Cardiovascular and metabolic manifestations of heat stroke and severe heat exhaustion.
  Costrini AM, Pitt HA, Gustafson AB, Uddin DE, Year Book of Sports Medicine 127 29
• Alterations in gallbladder calcium and protein concentration during cholesterol gallstone formation.
  Doty JE, Roslyn JJ, Pitt HA, Kuchenbecker SL, DenBesten L, Clin Res 29:31A
• New methods to quantify altered gallbladder function during cholesterol gallstone formation.
  Doty JE, Pitt HA, Kuchenbecker SL, DenBesten L, Am J Clin N 34:634
• Changes in bile salt pool size and biliary lipids following vagotomy.
  Pitt HA, Roslyn JJ, Doty JE, DenBesten L, Clin Res 29:628A
• Response to question regarding small bowel mesenteric fibrosis.
  Pitt HA, Corresp Soc Surg 4:4 5
• Cholesterol Saturated bile induced gallbladder stasis by altering extrahepatic biliary function.
  Doty JE, Pitt HA, Kuchenbecker SL, DenBesten L, Gastroenterology 80:1138
• Long term total parenteral nutrition induced gallbladder disease.
  Roslyn JJ, Pitt HA, Mann LL, Ament ME, DenBesten L, Gastroenterology 80:1264
• The different effects of early and chronic cholelithiasis on hepatic bile lithogenicity.
  Roslyn JJ, Kuchenbecker SL, DenBesten L, Pitt HA, Polarek JW, Curr Surg 38:354
• Cholesterol saturated bile increases gallbladder blood flow.
  Doty JE, Porter Fink V, DenBesten L, Kuchenbecker SL, Pitt HA, Clin Res 30:34A
• Increased risk of gallstones in children on total parental nutrition.
  Berquist WE, Pitt HA, Mann LL, Roslyn JJ, Ament ME, Kangarloo H, Clin Res 30, 137A
• Factors affecting mortal¬ity in biliary tract surgery.
  Pitt HA, Postier RG, Cameron JL, Gadacz TR, Curr Surg 39:282
• The patho-physiology of gallbladder disease induced by total parenteral nutrition.
  Doty JE, Pitt HA, Porter Fink V, Kuchenbecker SL, DenBesten L, Gastroenterology 82:1046
• Prolonged parenteral nutrition induced calculus and acalculous chole-cystitis.
  Pitt HA, Mann LL, King W III, Roslyn JJ, Berquist WE, Ament ME, DenBesten L, Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the International Biliary Association
• Biliary bacteria: Significance and alterations after antibiotic therapy.
  Pitt HA, Postier RG, Cameron JL, Surg Gynecol Obstet 155:457 58
• The effect of different parenteral nutrition solutions on biliary physiology.
  Doty JE, Pitt HA, Porter Fink V, DenBesten L, JPEN 6:580
• Parenteral nutrition induces calcium bilirubinate sludge and gallstones in the prairie dog.
  Pitt HA, Doty JE, Lewinski MA, Porter Fink V, DenBesten L, Clin Res 31:243A
• Biliary bacteria: Significance and alterations after antibiotic therapy.
  Pitt HA, Postier RG, Cameron JL, Curr Surg 40:51 52
• Factors influencing outcome in postoperative biliary strictures.
  Pitt HA, Miyamoto T, Parapatis SK, Tompkins RK, Longmire WP, Jr, Surg Gynecol Obstet 156:118 19
• The effect of reticulo-endothelial system stimulation on the outcome of bile induced pancreatitis in dogs.
  Adham NF, Song MK, Scott S, Pitt HA, Haberfelde G, Gastroenterology 84:1088
• Bile salt pool determi¬nation: A new recovery method.
  Doty JE, Porter Fink V, Pitt HA, DenBesten L, Gastroenterology 84:1140
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Lectures

• Maintaining Success 
  Philadelphia, PA - 10/28/2014

Other

• Frontiers in Bioscience. 
  Lipsett PA, Pitt HA, Acute cholangitis
  http://www.bioscience.org
• Up to Date Surgery. 
  Lavu H, Pitt HA, Biliary drainage procedures
  http://www.uptodate.com
• Resection of Type I choledochal cyst. 
  Pitt HA, American College of Surgeons
• Surgical management of stones and strictures. 
  Pitt HA, Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
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