Digestive Health Services Procedures, Tests and Surgeries

When 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 

• Optical Colonoscopy
• Virtual Colonoscopy

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

• Liver Transplant

Radiology Procedures

• Barium Enema
• Barium Pouch Study
• Defecography
• Upper GI Small Bowel Follow Through

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

• Laporoscopic Surgery for Colon and Rectal Cancer
• Laporoscopic Surgery for Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Diverticulitis
• Minimally-Invasive Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery