MEDICAL SERVICES

GASTROENTEROHEPATOLOGY

Gastroscopy

Gastroscopy facilitates the evaluation of the symptoms of upper stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, and/or difficulties while swallowing. Gastroscopy is a procedure for detecting reasons for bleeding from the upper sections of the digestive system and is a much more precise method compared to X-Ray diagnostics.

Gastroscopy can confirm or rule out the following conditions:

– Inflammation, including Helicobacter pylori

– Possible ulcerations of the esophagus, stomach, duodenum

– Tumors of the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum

Colonoscopy

Colonoscopy is a procedure used to examine the inside of the colon.
Colonoscopy is a procedure where the physician uses a colonoscope (a thin hose) to see into the bottom section of the gastrointestinal tract (rectum, colon, and the end segment of the small intestine). The colonoscope is inserted through the anus, into the rectum until the cecum section of the colon where it joins the small intestine.

A one end the endoscope has a source of light and a small video camera, and the operator can see the inside of the organs on the monitor. The colonoscope also has a canal through which various instruments may be inserted. Using these instruments the operator can take a small sample (biopsy) of the mucosa for a more detailed examination, remove polyps, or apply appropriate medications. When the operator examines only the beginning section of the colon, then the procedure is called proctoscopy.
Colonoscopy can confirm or rule-out the following conditions:

  • Hemorrhoidal knots
  • Polyps
  • Diverticulum (extension of a part of the wall of the colon)
  • Nervous bowel syndrome
  • Inflammatory disease of the colon such as ulcero-hemorrhagic colitis or Crohn’s disease.
  • Colon cancer

Colonoscopy

Gastroenterological ultrasound examination

An examination by an abdomen ultrasound specialist is a diagnostic procedure used to examine the organs in the abdomen, i.e. to visualize the liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, prostate, and the bladder.