GASTROSCIENCES

Medical Gastroenterology

The Division of Medical Gastroenterology caters to the provision of a broad spectrum of medical gastro treatment services like:

• Diagnostic endoscopy; Diagnostic colonoscopy
• Endoscopic variceal band ligation
• Dilation of strictures (oesophagal, pyloric)
• Achalasia cardia pneumatic balloon dilatation
• Metal stenting for malignant oesophagal, gastric, colonic & biliary strictures
• Colonoscopic polypectomies
• Haemostasis of bleeding peptic ulcers
• Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
• Glue injection for gastric varices
• Rendezvous biliary procedures
• Endoscopy for obesity – Intragastric balloons

Biliary:

• Benign and malignant strictures of CBD
• CBD stone extraction
• CBD leaks
• Rendezvous procedures

Expertise in managing:

• HBV and HCV
• Chronic liver diseases, Cirrhosis of liver, HCC
• Inflammatory bowel diseases
• (Crohn’s & Ulcerative colitis)

Surgical Gastroenterology

• Open surgical and keyhole procedures
• Sutureless Surgery with endo GI staples and bloodless surgery with ultrasonic scalpel
• Expertise in hepatobiliary, pancreatic, gastroesophageal, colorectal and surgeries for the small bowel, portal hypertension, spleen and major GI trauma

Laparoscopic surgeries offered:

• Laparoscopic cholecystectomy, appendicectomy
• Laparoscopic APR
• Laparoscopic fundoplication
• Laparoscopic splenectomy
• Laparoscopic liver surgeries
• Laparoscopic hernia surgeries
• Stapled apoplexy (MIPH for piles)

Bariatric surgeries offered:

• Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
• Laparoscopic gastric bypass

Upper GI surgeries offered:

• Transhiatal esophagectomy, transthoracic esophagectomy for oesophagal cancers
• Colon transposition for corrosive oesophagal strictures
• Achalasia cardia surgeries
• Radical gastrectomies for gastric cancers
• Radical hemicolectomy, anterior resection, APR for Ca. Colon and Ca.
• Rectum
• Surgery for retroperitoneal tumours
• Gall bladder stone removal
• Removal of early cancerous tumours
• Appendectomy
• Hernia repair
• Hemicolectomy
• Spleen removal
• Clearing up of intra-abdominal adhesions
• Colonoscopy (lower GI Endoscopy)
• Endoscopic polypectomy
• Flexible sigmoidoscopy
• Endoscopic CBD Stone extraction
• Papillotomy
• Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
• Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy