Digestive Health Services Treatments, Procedures and Tests
UW Health Digestive Health Service specialists provide comprehensive clinical services related to the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon, anorectum, liver, gallbladder/biliary tree and pancreas. Among the treatments, procedures and tests we provide are:
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- Colonoscopy
- Colonic polypectomy
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)
- Endoscopy (for control of gastrointestinal bleeding and esophageal dilation - including gastroscopy, upper endoscopy and endoscopic ultrasound)
- Esophageal Manometry
- 24-Hour Esophageal pH Monitoring
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Gastroscopy
- Interferon treatment for heptatitis C
- Laser endoscopy
- Liver Biopsy
- Liver Transplant
- Medical management of various digestive diseases and disorders
- Motility studies
- Nutritional counseling
- Papillotomy with stent placement
- Percutaneous Gastrostomy (feeding tube insertion)
- Sclerotherapy
- Stone extraction
- Virtual Colonoscopy
Colon and Rectal
- Diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopy
- Enterostomal therapy consultation and treatment
- Ileal pouch reconstruction for ulcerative colitis and familial polyposis
- Laparoscopic (minimally-invasive) surgery for colon and rectal cancer and inflammatory disease
- Segmental resection of the colon and rectum
- Sphincter repair for incontinence
- Sphincter-saving surgery for rectal cancer
- Surgical resection for complex Crohn's disease
- Surgical treatment of benign anorectal disease
- Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery (TEMS)/Transanal Surgical Removal of Rectal Tumors
