Paediatric Advanced Endoscopy in Hyderabad
Recent advances in endoscopy enable our paediatric GI team to avoid surgery for diagnosing and treating several conditions that once required it. Minimally invasive endoscopic procedures can enable shorter hospital stays, quicker recoveries, and better overall outcomes. Haritha Hospital extraordinary focus on endoscopic treatments for children gives us key clinical advantages over other centers where their adult-focused endoscopy teams treat even their youngest patients.
What is Advanced Endoscopy?
An endoscope is a long, thin, flexible tool with a tiny video camera and light source on one end. It can be passed into the GI tract through the mouth or the rectum to examine and diagnose gastrointestinal conditions. The endoscope can also be equipped with tiny tools that enable physicians to take biopsies, drain fluids, insert stents, and conduct other medical procedures. Some of these treatments can even reach outside the gastrointestinal tract to examine and treat lymph nodes, for example, or to drain fluid that has collected in or around the pancreas.
Endoscopy is any minimally invasive medical procedure that primarily uses an endoscope to diagnose or treat a medical problem. Historically, endoscopy was mainly used for diagnostic purposes, to investigate parts of the body that are hard to reach without surgery. Today, a small group of specially trained paediatric gastroenterologists are also using endoscopy to perform advanced therapeutic procedures. “Advanced endoscopy” is a term used to describe therapeutic procedures in which endoscopy is a primary tool, including endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), stent placements, and endoscopic resections, among others.
How is an endoscopy performed?
To perform the procedure, the doctor uses a long, flexible, lighted tube called an endoscope. The endoscope is guided through the patient’s mouth and throat, then through the esophagus, stomach and duodenum (first part of the small intestine). The physician can examine the inside of these organs and detect abnormalities.
In addition to performing visual examination of the UGI tract with the endoscope, the doctor can insert instruments through the endoscope to get tissue samples for a biopsy, remove foreign objects, instill air or fluid, stop bleeding or perform therapeutic procedures, such as endoscopic surgery, laser therapy or dilatation (opening up). A video camera in the endoscope provides images onto a TV-like monitor.
Digestive conditions we treat
- Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding
- Small intestine inflammatory bowel disease
- Crohn’s disease
- Intestinal polyps
- Intestinal allergic reactions
- Gallstones in children
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