Activities:
- Gastroenterology : A medical specialty that focuses on the digestive system (esophagus, stomach, small intestines and colon). Includes pediatric gastroenterology.
- Hepatology : A medical specialty that focuses on the liver and associated organs (gallbladder, spleen, pancreas, and biliary tree).
- Diagnostic Endoscopy : Investigative examinations that look inside the body through an endoscope (a long, flexible tube usually with a camera on the end) to find out what the source of a problem might be.
- Therapeutic Endoscopy : Going inside the body with an endoscope to treat a problem.
Our doctors and staff have years of experience treating many kinds of digestive diseases. Below is a list of some of the more common issues we see in the Unit:
- Abdominal pain
- Alcoholic Liver Disease
- Barrett’s esophagus
- Biliary diseases
- Cancer of digestive system
- Celiac disease
- Changes in bowel habits
- Cholangiocarcinoma
- Cirrhosis of the Liver
- Colitis
- Colon polyp
- Constipation
- Crohn’s disease
- Diarrhea
- Diverticulosis and Diverticulitis
- Gallbladder disorders
- Gallstones
- Gastroenteritis
- GERD (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease)
- GI infection
- Heartburn
- Hepatitis
- Intestinal bleeding
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)
- Non –alcoholic Liver Disease
- Pancreatic diseases
- PUD (Peptic Ulcer Disease)
- Rectal bleeding
- Stomach ulcers
- Swallowing difficulties (Dysphasia)
- Ulcerative colitis
Therapeutic endoscopies that routinely performed by our staffs:
- Gastrointestinal bleeding: emergency endoscopy 24 h and 7/7 activities with a varieties of gestures are performed according to the clinical contexts: injection technique, clips. Argon plasma coagulation (APC), esophageal varice ligation, clue injection.
- Percutaneous endoscopy gastrostomy for enteral feeding
- Endoscopic polypectomy
- Esophageal dilation
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreaticography ( ERCP)
- Hemorrhoid ligation
- Mesurement of liver stiffness : FibroScan
- Small bowel capsule investigations
- Endoscopic ultrasound
- Motility function examinations:
- Upper gastrointestinal tract (Esophageal manometry)
- Lower gastrointestinal tract (Anorectal manometry)
