Endoscopy Unit
At our Endoscopy unit, diagnostic and treatment-oriented interventional endoscopic procedures are performed under anesthesia and observation of the department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation.
The following procedures are performed at the Endoscopy unit:
- Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
- Colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, rectoscopy
- Bogie and balloon dilatation in esophageal strictures
- Band ligation and sclerotherapy for esophageal varices
- Cyanoacrylate therapy in gastric varices
- Sclerotherapy in hemorrhagic lesions
- Polypectomy
- Argon plasma coagulation, hemoclipping
- Stenting in malignant strictures
- Percutaneous endoscopy gastrostomy (PEG)
- Percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy (PEJ)
- Nasojejunal intubation
- Endoscopic hemorrhoid treatments (injection sclerotherapy/band ligation)
- Esophageal and anal manometer - motility examinations (graphical evaluation of muscular functions and motions of esophagus and colon)
- pH measurement (24-hour evaluation of migration of gastric acid to esophagus and acid level)
- Capsule endoscopy
- USG-guided liver biopsy
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
o Imaging of bile and pancreatic ducts
o Endoscopic sphincterotomy
o Extraction of bile duct calculi
o Balloon dilatation in bile duct strictures
o Stenting in bile duct strictures
o Extraction of calculi or stenting in pancreas patients
o Nasobiliary stenting
- Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS)
o Diagnostic imaging, staging and biopsy
o Cystogastrostomy in pancreatic cysts
o Celiac blockage in chronic pancreatitis
o Celiac blockage in pancreas cancer
o Bile duct drainage procedures
- Advanced endoscopic procedures
o Chromoendoscopy-magnifying endoscopy
o Endoscopic ultrasonography, mini-probe endoscopic ultrasonography
o Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD)
o Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR)
o Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM)
o Submucosal endoscopic tumor resection (STER/POET)
o Endoscopic full-thickness resection (EFTR)
o Anti-reflux mucosectomy (ARMS-reflux, GERDx, TIF2)
o Peroral endoscopic pyloromyotomy (G-POEM/POP-gastroparesis)
o Endoscopic Zenker diverticuloseptomyotomy (esophageal diverticula)
o Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (obesity)
o Enteroscopy (Power Spiral-motorized enteroscopy, single-balloon enteroscopy, double-balloon enteroscopy)
o Endoscopic-laparoscopic treatments (LECS)
o Per-anal endoscopic myectomy (PAEM)
o Electro-incision, argon plasma coagulation and laser
o Endoscopic suturing practices (overstitch, hemoclips, OTSC, loop…)