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Specialties » Gastroenterology

ENDOSCOPY

It is a method to examine the ducts and cavities of the body through sophisticated optical instruments, which provide visual information about internal organs, otherwise inaccessible to direct examination.
Lets take biopsies, drain abscesses, remove lesions in the field of the modern gastroenterology videoendoscopy has become indispensable as a tool or weapon testing and treatment, allowing more accurate diagnosis and treatment improves outcomes.

Who should MAKING A videoendoscopy?
Those who have digestive symptoms such as heartburn or known as heartburn, burning sensation in the back of the chest and throat, frequent belching, regurgitation of food and ingested into the throat or mouth pain in the upper abdomen, vomiting blood. black colored stools, difficulty swallowing or moving food, and very important family history of cancer in the esophagus or stomach and as the study of early detection of cancer after 40 years of age does not matter if male or female.

What diagnosis can be done with this study?

• Esophagitis
• Esophageal Variceal
• Hiatal hernia
• ULCERS
• GASTRITIS
• TUMORS
• CANCER
• POLYPS

And all possible causes of bleeding from esophageal stomach and intestine.

HOW IS THE PROCEDURE?

• Are subject to a fast-acting intravenous sedative.
• Vital signs were monitored during the study.
• Be placed sideways on the table ENDOSCOPY.
• You Xylocaine spray applied to numb the pharynx.
• The endoscope is inserted through the mouth and pass through the pharynx.
• You must swallow to facilitate the passage of the endoscope.
• Air is introduced to open or distend organs.
• Displays the pharynx, esophagus, stomach and duodenum.
• The images are stored on videotape and photography.
• Biopsies were taken if necessary.
• The test takes 15 minutes to an hour. Usually not painful.
• Has little or no complications in the hands of well trained.

Intragastric Balloon


What is the procedure?
It involves placing a balloon inside the stomach that produces a constant feeling of fullness, in order that the person eat less food and thus to lose weight.


How is it placed?
It is a nonsurgical technique, in which the deflated balloon is inserted through the mouth is guided by an endoscope into the stomach. Once there, the ball is literally inflated inside the stomach and has a maximum weight of 25 grams as opposed to other balls that are filled with water and its weight ranges between 400 and 700 grams which creates a feeling of heaviness in the abdomen and nausea.


How long you can hold the ball?
It is recommended to be removed within 6 months.


How much weight I can lose?
Depend on the initial weight of their discipline and willingness to enter the BIB program weight loss can vary between 15 to 25 kg on average at the end of 6 months.