Gastroenterology and Endoscopy

About Gastroenterology and Endoscopy

What is Gastroenterology?

Gastroenterology is the branch of medicine dealing with the health of your digestive system and gastrointestinal tract (GUT). Although gastroenterologist are mainly known to treating stomach and gastrointestinal problems, they also treat and diagnose illness involving pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, salivary glands, tongue, epiglottis, rectum & anus. This is also known to be your gut.

The Gastrointestinal System is responsible for:

Digesting and moving food
Absorbing nutrients
Removing waste from your body

Recent studies show that there is a very close tie between your gut and your overall immunity as well as your guy and the production of serotonin in your brain

At Al Zahra Hospital Dubai, our Gastroenterology Department offers the following range of services:

Abdominal Pain Investigation
Chronic Diarrhoea
Coeliac Disease
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Hepatobiliary Problems (Jaundice, Choledocholithiasis, Cholangitis,Biliary Tumour)
Incontinence and Constipation
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Liver Cirrhosis with or without Portal Hypertension
Pancreatic Diseases (Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis, Pancreatic Tumour)
Peptic Ulcer Disease

What is Endoscopy?

Endoscopy is the process by which a long, thin tube is inserted into the body to observe an internal organ or tissue in detail, in this case the gastrointestinal tract. It can also be used to carry out other tasks including imaging and minor surgery.

Endoscopes are minimally invasive and can be inserted into the openings of the body such as the mouth (Gastroscopy), or anus (Colonoscopy).

Endoscopies are done under sedation and are usually daycare procedures, which means the patient can go home the same day.

Before an endoscopy takes place your doctor will take you through all the measures you need to take, to get yourself ready for the procedure.

At AZH, our Endoscopy Department offers the following range of services:

Diagnostic Endoscopy:

Capsule Endoscopy
Colonoscopy
Chromoendoscopy
Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
Rigid Proctoscopy
Oesophagogastroduodenoscopy

Therapeutic Endoscopy:

Achalasia Pneumodilation
Dilations of Gastrointestinal Strictures
Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio Pancreatography (ERCP)
Endoscopic Septotomy of Zenker’s Diverticulum
Oesophageal Varices Banding
Foreign Body Extraction
Haemostasis (Injection Sclerotherapy, APC Coagulation, Metal Clipping, Endolooping)
Haemostasis Variceal Bleeding (Injection, Banding, Glue)
Liver Biopsy
Nasojejunal Feeding Tube Placement
Oesophageal, Duodenal, Colonic Stent Insertion
Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) Insertion
Peritoneal Aspiration
Polypectomy / Endoscopic Mucosal Resection

Central Nervous System

Open visitation with only two visitors in a room at any given time. No one under 12 years of age may.

Allergic Disorders

Open visitation with only two visitors in a room at any given time. No one under 12 years of age may.

Neoplastic Disorders

Open visitation with only two visitors in a room at any given time. No one under 12 years of age may.

For endocrine problems

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For the respiratory system

For the ear, nose and oropharynx

For the respiratory system

Chest CT Scan

Although pulmonary medicine only began to evolve as a medical specialty in the 1950s, William Welch and William Osler founded the ‘parent’ organization of the American Thoracic Society

One of the first major discoveries relevant to the field of pulmonology was the discovery of pulmonary circulation. Originally, it was thought that blood reaching the right side of the heart passed through small ‘pores’ in the septum into the left side to be oxygenated, as theorized by Galen; however, the discovery of pulmonary circulation disproves this theory, which had previously been accepted since the 2nd century. Thirteenth century anatomist and physiologist Ibn Al-Nafis accurately theorized that there was no ‘direct’ passage between the two sides.