Department of Gastroenterology

Treatments and Procedures

  • Diagnostic gastroscopy and colonoscopy
  • Balloon enteroscopy
  • ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio Pancreatography)
  • Therapeutic Endoscopy
  • Liver Biopsy – routine, transjugular biopsies and hepatic portal vein gradient measurements (HVPG).
  • Placement of feeding tubes –gastrostomy (PEG) and jejunostomy tubes.
  • Transjugular intra hepatic porto systemic Shunts (TIPS)
  • Trans-arterial chemotherapy.