When You’re in Digestive Distress, We’re Here to Offer Relief
When does an upset stomach signal something more serious? When does irregularity require intervention? Digestive distress can put a cramp in your lifestyle.
Our specialized digestive disease services has the inside tract and can help you get you back to feeling your best. We diagnose and treat a wide range of gastrointestinal disorders and digestive diseases, performing more than 17,000 procedures a year in the following areas:
- Chronic diarrhea
- Diseases of the colon
- Gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Liver disease including hepatitis C and cirrhosis
- Ulcer disease
Our program also offers a full array of endoscopy services to diagnose and treat digestive problems of the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas and gallbladder with scopes that provide video and sonographic images.
Better than Science Fiction: Camera Pill Views Small
Approximately 70 million Americans experience gastrointestinal problems, such as bleeding, Crohn’s disease and intestinal tumors, but difficulty seeing inside the small intestine can make diagnosis difficult. You now can ingest a pill-sized camera that gives your doctor an insider’s view of your small intestine. This capsule passes naturally through your digestive tract, recording video images that are transmitted and stored on a recorder belt you wear on your waist. Eight hours after swallowing the capsule, you return the recorder belt to your doctors, who can view the results.