PROCEDURES

      ERCP

• Treatment of obstructive jaundice due to gallstones, tumors and postoperative injuries.
• Biliary sphincterotomy and stone retrieval
• Mechanical lithotripsy
• Biliary and metal stenting
• Treatment of sphincter oddi dysfunction which presents with recurrent post cholecystectomy pain and pancreatitis episodes.

  . Biliary sphincterotomy

  . Pancreatic sphincterotomy

• Endoscopic diagnosis and treatment of chronic pancreatitis and idiopathic recurrent pancreatitis.
• Pancreatic stone retrieval
• Stents and balloon dilation for pancreatic duct strictures.
• Minor papillotomy for pancreas divisum
• Stents for pancreatic traumatic or postoperative leaks

   

  CHOLANGIOSCOPY/PANCREATOSCOPY

• Endoscopic diagnosis and biopsy of suspected cholangiocarrcinoma
• Endoscopic diagnosis and biopsy of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm

   

  EUS (Endoscopic ultrasonography)

• Gastrointestinal tumor staging
• Lung cancer and mediastinal tumor and lymphadenopathy staging and fine needle aspiratin (FNA)
• Diagnosis and FNA of pancreatic cancers, cysts neuroendocrine tumors and other masses
• Pseudocystgastrostomy
• Pseudocystduodenostomy
• Celiac block and neurolysis for treatment of chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer pain
• Fiducial implantation for targeted radiation treatment

   

  EGD AND COLONOSCOPY

• Treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding ( Ulcer bleeding, band ligation for esophageal varices, cyanoacrylate glue injection for fundal varices, treatment of radiation proctitis aand Watermellon stomach with Argon Plasma Coagulation)
• Polypectomy and mucosectomy for large polyps and early mucosal cancers of the gastrointestinal tract
• Balloon dilation and stents for gastrointestinal strictures
• Endoscopic balloon dilation and BOTOX for Achalasia
• Radiofrequency ablation or mucosectomy for Barret’s esophagus (BARRX)
• Band ligation and infrared coagulation for hemoroids
• Foreign body removal from the gastrointestinal tract
• Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy (PEJ), jejunal tube through a PEG ( JET – PEG ), nasojejunal feeding tube placement.

   

  DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY

• Bleeding control originating from the small bowel
• Biopsy of small bowel lesions
• Polyp removal from the small
• Balloon dilatation and stents for small bowel stenosis and strictures
• Foreign body removal from the small bowel