Conditions and Treatments
Preparing For Your GI Procedure
Our Health Facts For You include instructions to help you prepare for your gastrointestinal procedure, home care instructions to help you after after undergoing a procedure, and general health information about your condition:
Pediatric Services
Colorectal Cancer Prevention and Screening
You've got the power: with screening, colorectal cancer can be prevented.
UW Health gastroenterology and hepatology specialists provide comprehensive clinical services related to the digestive tract, liver and pancreas.
Programs
- Primary Liver Tumor Clinic
- Liver and Pancreas (Hepatopancreaticobiliary) Program
- Swallowing/Dysphagia Clinic
- GI Pregnancy Clinic
Conditions
Our specialists offer comprehensive care to patients with a variety of diseases and conditions, including:
- Acid Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Alcoholic Liver Disease
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease (including Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis)
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Gastrointestinal Bleeding
- Gastrointestinal problems during pregnancy
- Hepatitis
- Liver Disease
- Malabsorption
- Pancreatitis
Treatments, Procedures and Tests
From caring for a patient undergoing a screening procedure for colon cancer to the complex management of a patient awaiting liver transplantation, patients and families can be confident that the highest quality of care will be delivered. Our wide range of services includes:
- 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
