Digestive Health Services Procedures, Tests and Surgeries
Health Facts for You
View all of our Digestive Health Center Health FactsWhen you have been diagnosed with a digestive health disorder, UW Health's Digestive Health Services provides comprehensive care.
Our team approach means that you will always have a specialist working with you throughout testing, diagnosis, procedures and after-care. Below are just some of the procedures and tests our specialists use to treat digestive health disorders.
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Procedures and Tests
Colonoscopy Procedures
Endoscopy Procedures
- Balloon-assisted Deep Enteroscopy
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Endoscopic Ultrasound
- HALO Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA)
- Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Liver Procedures
Radiology Procedures
Other Procedures and Tests
- 24-Hour pH Monitoring and Impedance Study
- Anal Manometry
- Capsule Enteroscopy or Capsule Camera Study of the Small Intestine
- Esophageal Manometry
- High Resolution Anoscopy (HRA)
- Rectal Dilitation
- Rectal Ultrasound
- Percutaneous Gastrostomy (Feeding Tube)
Surgery
Rectal Surgery
- Fistula Treatment with Setons
- Hemorrhoid Surgery: Hemorrhoid Banding, Hemorrhoidectomy, Thrombosed Hemorrhoids
- Overlapping Sphincteroplasty
- Rectal surgery: Bowel Resections, Rectal Exam Under Anesthesia (No Pouch), Rectal Exam Under Anesthesia (With Pouch), Rectal Prolapse
- Rectovaginal Fistula Repair
- Removal of Anal Warts
- Sphincter repair for incontinence
- Sphincter-saving Surgery for Rectal Cancer
- Surgical treatment of benign anorectal disease
- Transanal Resection
- Transanal Surgical Removal of Rectal Tumors
Ostomy Surgery
- Colostomy
- Enterostomal therapy consultation and treatment
- Ileal Pouch Reconstruction
- Ileostomy Takedown with Ileal Pouch
- Ostomy Takedown
Surgical Resections
- Abdominoperineal Resection of the Bowel (APR)
- Segmental resection of the colon and rectum
- Surgical resection for complex Crohn's disease
Laparoscopic (Minimally invasive) Surgery