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)