Gastroenterology

Vijan Hospital Nashik have a department of gastroenterology with a specialist team.

Gastroenterology is an area of medicine that focuses on the health of the digestive system or the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Gastroenterologists can treat everything from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) to hepatitis C.

Gastroenterology is the study of the normal function and diseases of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon and rectum, pancreas, gallbladder, bile ducts, and liver.

A Gastroenterologist does not perform surgeries but usually performs daycare procedures through endoscopes.

Treatment & Technologies :

Diagnostic & Therapeutic Upper gastrointestinal Endoscopy.(Endoscopic examination of the food pipe, stomach & small intestine)
Diagnostic & Therapeutic Lower gastrointestinal Endoscopy Colonoscopy. (Endoscopic examination of the large intestine)
Diagnostic & Therapeutic Endoscopic Ultrasound-(EUS) (for cancer of food pipe, stomach, gall bladder, pancreas & for jaundice & pancreatitis)
Advance Therapeutic ERCP (Treatment for obstructive jaundice due to stones or cancers of the biliary system or pancreas / Treatment of chronic pancreatitis)
Diagnostic & Therapeutic Single balloon Enteroscopy (for the disease of small intestine-bleeding tumor)
Endoscopic Treatment for Obesity-(Intragastric balloon placement)
G.I. Physiology & Motility studies. (Difficulty in swallowing & acid reflux)
Consultation in Gastroenterology-For diseases related to the gastrointestinal tract (food pipe, stomach large intestine, small intestine, gall bladder, Liver & pancreas)
IBS-(Lifestyle modified disease for gases in the stomach, constipation, diarrhea, lower abdominal pain & blood/mucus in stools).
IBD-Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Profuse bleeding, Perforation, Strictures and obstruction, Fistula and perianal disease)