Simón Beker Gorenstein, Venezuelan gastroenterologist and hepatologist (Maracaibo 06 February 1929 – 16 August 1997)

From a Jewish Moldavian family 

Authored 170 papers and 5 books

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

Radiologia de la schistosomiasis mansoni en su forma hepatoesplénica. GEN 22(1):17, 1956

With A.E. Read. Familial Dubin-Johnson syndrome. Gastroent. 35:387-9, 1958

With J. Valencia Parpacén, L. Carbonell, V. Bosch, N.F. de Bosch & R.P. Moncada. Estudios funcionales y histopatologicos en el síndrome de malabsorción intestinal. G.E.N 15:461-76, 1961

With J. Valencia Parpacén. Contribution to the knowledge of portal hypertension: analysis of 116 patients. GEN 17:15, 1962-3

With J. Valencia Parpacén, A. Rivas Gómez & P.R. Moncada. Strongyloidiasis intestinal en Venezuela. G.E.N. 17:285-95, 1963

With J. Valencia Parpacén, J. Carbonell & P.R. Moncada. Biopsia de la mucosa intestinal en ciertas parasitosis intestinales (Necatoriasis y Strongiloidiasis). G.E.N. 17(3):377-82, 1963

With J. Valencia Parpacén. Portal hypertension syndrome. A comparative analysis of bilharzial fibrosis and hepatic cirrhosis. Amer.J. Dig. Dis. 13 (12):1047-54, 1968

With J. Valencia Parpacén & M. de Gonzalez. Hepatitis viral postransfusional. Prensa Med. Arg. 55(27):1286-7, 1968

With J. Valencia Parpacén., P. Grases & M. Gonzalez. Coma hepatico por hepatitis aguda (insuficiência hepática fulminante). G.E.N. 28:401, 1969 

Maladsorción intestinal y helmintiasis. Acta Med. Venez. 18:185-9, 1971

Therapeutic trial with chenodeoxycholic acid for dissolving gallstones. Gastroent. 66:664, 1974

With F. Eslava, H. Zerpa et al. Endoscopic toluidine blue scattering method in the diagnosis of gastric lesions. Gastroint. Endosc. 24:74, 1977

Treatment of cholesterol gallstones with chenic acid: a follow-up study of 25 patients. Am. J. Gastroent. 68:456, 1977 

With M. Guelrud, M.L. Pérez & J.A. Ortega. Efecto de los bloqueadores H2 (cimetidine) en el tratamiento de la úlcera duodenal. GEN 32(4):451, 1978

With Pedro J. Grases. Color Atlas of Liver Biopsy: A Clinical pathology guide. Ed. Alan G. Liss, Inc., New York, 1981.

With G. Monasterios, H. Zerpa & S. Vincent. Hepatopatía alcohólica em nuestro medio. Consideraciones relevantes sobre aspectosepidemiológicos, clinico-patologicos y planteamientos em la tomada de decisiones futuras. GEN 38:73, 1984

Hepatology for the clinician: a problem-oriented approach. Ed. Alan G. Liss, Inc., New York, 1989.

With P.J. Grases. Veno-occlusive disease of the liver

OFFICES

President, International Association for the Study of Liver, 1984-6

President, Bockus International Societ, 1987-9