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Advanced Nutritional Services

The Digestive Health Center offers a multidisciplinary approach to advanced nutritional services.

Conditions Treated

  • Dysmotility requiring TPN/enteral support
  • Malnutrition requiring TPN/enteral feeding
  • Short bowel syndrome
  • TPN patients

Testing Options

  • Barium studies, including:
    • Barium swallow
    • SB series
    • UGI series
  • Blood testing
  • Colonoscopy
  • CVAD placement
  • EGD
  • Fecal fat testing
  • PEG/PEJ placement
  • Smart Pill
  • Video capsule endoscopy

Treatment Options

  • Antibiotic TX
  • CVAD type and maintenance
  • Enteral access trial and placement
  • Stricture dilation
  • TPN initiation

Care Team

Physician, Internal Medicine

Nurse Practitioner, Internal Medicine