GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY

GASTROENTEROLOGY

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 Cholangio Pancreatography)
  • 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 Nepoplasia

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

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