Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology
The Department of Medical Gastroenterology, specialty offers a wide range of treatment options to both pediatric and adult patients having liver, esophagus, stomach and intestinal, pancreatic diseases and nutritional problems.
A multi-disciplinary team involving medical, surgical and radiological expertise perform procedures like transjugular intra hepatic porto systemic shunts (TIPS), transjugular liver biopsy and trans-arterial chemotherapy. The department has advanced equipment like high definition endoscopy, and endoscopic ultrasound and is well supported by round the clock laboratory, ICU, radiology and emergency services to ensure patients receive highest level of care in a timely manner.
Gastroenterologists treat conditions such as:
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Gastrointestinal cancer
- Anaemia – a condition where the haemoglobin the blood (a pigment that carries oxygen) is below normal levels
- Inflammatory bowel disease, eg Crohn’s disease (inflammation of the lining of the digestive system), ulcerative colitis (inflammation and ulceration of the lining of the rectum and colon)
- Short bowel syndrome
- Jaundice – a condition where the skin yellows due to an accumulation of bilirubin the blood and tissues
- Management of alcoholic, viral hepatitis (Inflammation of the liver caused by a virus) and autoimmune liver disorders (where the body attacks its own cells)
- Diverticulitis - inflammation of the diverticula (small pouches) in the intestine
- Gastroenteritis
- Hepatitis
Treatments and Procedures
- Diagnostic gastroscopy and colonoscopy
- Balloon enteroscopy
- ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio Pancreatography)
- Therapeutic Endoscopy
- Liver Biopsy – routine, transjugular biopsies and hepatic portal vein gradient measurements (HVPG).
- Placement of feeding tubes –gastrostomy (PEG) and jejunostomy tubes.
- Transjugular intra hepatic porto systemic Shunts (TIPS)