None required intervention. One patient with gastritis by endoscopy died from disseminated (non-upper GI) malignant disease 2 months after endoscopy. Follow up on the remaining patients was ...

Investigators identified a cohort of patients with no history of Parkinson's disease who underwent an upper endoscopy (EGD)—a procedure to image and diagnose problems in the esophagus, stomach ...

While cataract surgeries top the list, several GI-related procedures follow closely, accounting for a large portion of ASC case volume for Medicare beneficiaries. Here are the GI procedures among the ...

Your provider may recommend an upper endoscopy to screen for conditions affecting the upper portion of your GI tract, such as celiac disease. This procedure lets them check the inside of your ...

AdventHealth Tampa (Fla.) has opened a Center for Interventional Endoscopy, the only interventional endoscopy center in the Tampa Bay region. Hafiz Khan, MD, serves as medical director of Tampa’s CIE, ...

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upper and lower endoscopy with biopsies, polypectomies, variceal sclerotherapy and banding, foreign body removal from upper GI tract, dilations, percutaneous liver biopsies, pH probe, hydrogen breath ...