Gastroenterology and Hepatology specialize in preventing, diagnosing and treating the digestive tract and liver disorders. These mainly include conditions involving the pancreas, liver, gallbladder, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and colon.
Conditions:
- Acid Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Alcoholic Liver Disease
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease (including Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis)
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Gastrointestinal Bleeding
- Gastrointestinal problems during pregnancy
- Hepatitis
- Liver Disease
- Malabsorption
- Pancreatitis
Treatments, Procedures and Tests
From caring for a patient undergoing a screening procedure for colon cancer to the complex management of a patient awaiting liver transplantation, patients and families can be confident that the highest quality of care will be delivered. Our wide range of services includes:
- Colonoscopy
- Colonic polypectomy
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)
- Endoscopy (for control of gastrointestinal bleeding and esophageal dilation - including gastroscopy, upper endoscopy and endoscopic ultrasound)
- Esophageal Manometry
- 24-Hour Esophageal pH Monitoring
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Gastroscopy
- Interferon treatment for heptatitis C
- Laser endoscopy
- Liver Biopsy
- Liver Transplant
- Medical management of various digestive diseases and disorders
- Motility studies
- Nutritional counseling
- Papillotomy with stent placement
- Percutaneous Gastrostomy (feeding tube insertion)
- Sclerotherapy
- Stone extraction