The Digestive Health Center offers a multidisciplinary approach to therapeutic endoscopy - non ERCP.
Conditions Treated
- Chronic gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding of unknown cause
- Difficult or incomplete colonoscopy
- GI cancers:
- Esophagus cancer
- Stomach cancer
- Pancreaticobiliary cancer
- Colon cancer
- Non-GI malignancy
- Pancreatic pseudocysts
- Pre-malignant and early GI tumors
Testing Options
- Colonoscopy
- Double balloon enteroscopy
- Endoscopic ultrasound +/- fine needle aspiration (FNA)
- EGD
- Push enteroscopy
- Single balloon enteroscopy
Treatment Options
- Argon plasma coagulation
- Band ligation
- Celiac plexus block or neurolysis
- Closure of leaks
- Endoscopic mucosal resection
- Endoscopic submucosal dissection
- Foreign body retrieval
- PEG/PEG-J/PEJ tubes placement
- Radiofrequency ablation
- Sclerotherapy (including glue injection)
- Stent placement
- Stricture dilation