Department of Medicine - Section of Digestive Diseases

The Digestive Disease Section provides diagnosis and treatment of patients with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, and pancreas.

Available diagnostic and therapeutic procedures:

• diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy
• esophageal manometry and ambulatory esophageal pH monitoring
• laser applications for treatment of gastrointestinal malignancies
• liver biopsy
• small bowel biopsy
• management of esophageal strictures and achalasia
• endoscopic removal of polyps from stomach and colon
• sclerotherapy of esophageal
• varices - Banding of esophageal
• vances
• endoscopic control of
• gastrointestinal bleeding
• percutaneous endoscopic
• gastrostomy - PEG/-J