Diagnostic & therapeutic GI Endoscopy
What is Diagnostic & therapeutic GI Endoscopy?
Endoscopy is a procedure that allows your surgeon to examine the inside lining of the oesopha-gus, stomach, duodenum, small intestine or large intestine (colon).
It can assist with the diagnosis of many problems that affect the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract.
In many cases, a disorder can be treated during the endoscopic procedure.
This pamphlet discusses three different types of endoscopy: gastroscopy for the upper Gl tract, colonoscopy for the colon, and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopan-creatography (ERCP) for the bile duct and pancreas.
Depending on the examination and whether you need treatment during the procedure, an endoscopic procedure may take between five and 60 minutes.
Conditions Treated
The colon removes water from digested food and recycles it, before the expulsion of formed stool. About 1.5 metres long, the colon starts at the end of the small intestine and ends. at the anus. Colonoscopy is used to diagnose the cause of signs or symptoms such as:
- diarrhoea
- constipation
- lower abdominal pain
- occult (unseen) blood in the stool
- rectal bleeding
- anaemia.
- Crohn’s disease (inflamed immune tissue in the gut wall, leading to ulcerated intestines)
- polyps
- inflammatory bowel disease
- gastrointestinal haemorrhage
- colorectal (bowel) cancer.
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