Gastroenterology is a branch of medicine concerned with diagnosis and treatment of diseases involving the esophagus, stomach, small intestine and large intestine (colon), liver, gallbladder, and pancreas. This medical field is really a subspecialty of Internal Medicine but focusing on GI related disorders. The diagnostics, treatments and surgeries offered are:
DIAGNOSTIC STUDIES AND TREATMENTS OF GI DISORDERS
- Upper GI Endoscopy
- Colonoscopy
- ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography)
- Sclerotherapy and band ligation of varices
- Esophageal dilations
- Balloon treatment for Achalasia cardia
- Prosthesis placement
- Extraction of stone from bile duct
- Stenting of CBD and pancreatic ducts
- Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
- Colorectal Neoplasia
LIVER DISEASES AND CANCER
Cirrhosis: diagnosis and treatment
Liver failure: acute and chronic
Liver cancer: Diagnosis and treatment
Liver transplant
GI SURGERIES (INCLUDING MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGRIES)
- Cholecystectomy
- Appendectomy
- Splenectomy
- Intestinal Resections
- Surgery for Hiatus Hernia
- Benign and malignant diseases of the food pipe (esophagus)
- Diseases of stomach including tests for H. Pylori for peptic ulcer
- Diseases of small bowel including Malabsorption Syndrome
- Benign and Malignant disorders of the biliary tract and small and large bowel
- Acute and chronic pancreatic diseases
- Diseases of large bowel
- Liver Diseases including tests for Viral Profile in Hepatitis and Alcohol related problems.