Therapeutic Gastroscopy and Colonoscopy

Therapeutic Gastroscopy and Colonoscopy

Leeds endoscopy units provide the full range of therapeutic endoscopic procedures. The following is a list of some of the procedures performed in Leeds but is not exhaustive.

• Treatment of acute gastrointestinal haemorrhage
• Treatment of gastric and oesophageal varices 
• Oesophageal dilatation 
• Gastroduodenal and colonic balloon dilatation
• Thermal therapy for vascular malformations
• Gastric pacing
• Radiofrequency ablation of Barrett’s oesophagus related dypslasia
• Oesophageal stent insertion, pyloric and duodenal stent and colonic stent insertion 
• Gastrostomy (PEG) and feeding tube insertions
• Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR) of gastric and colonic lesions
• Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD) of gastric and colonic lesions 
• Therapeutic EUS 
•  EUS and FNA (Fine needle Aspiration)
• Endoscopic Retrograde cholangio-pancreatoscopy (ERCP)