An endoscopy allows a doctor to take a sample of tissue from the stomach, esophagus, or upper portion of the intestine, known as the duodenum. A healthcare professional may recommend an endoscopy ...

sedation-free examination of the stomach is desirable. Video capsule endoscopy is accepted as a diagnostic tool for small-bowel disease and its applications in the esophagus and colon have also ...

Step 7: Intraoperative Endoscopy The esophageal stethoscope and the orogastric ... chosen in preference to a posterior one because the stomach will offer further protection against a leak.

HealthDay News — In a clinical guideline issued by the American College of Gastroenterology and published in the January issue of the American Journal of Gastroenterology, recommendations are ...

After months of stomach pain and bottles of ulcer medicine, you are scheduled for an endoscopy. A gastroenterologist will ...

During an upper endoscopy, a healthcare provider inserts ... of genetic changes that can sometimes lead to gastric (stomach) or esophageal cancer. Studies estimate that having IM can increase ...

Best and Worst Foods for Stomach Ulcers Tests that may be used to diagnose diseases of the esophagus include barium X-rays (or barium swallow), upper endoscopy, and pH monitoring. During a barium ...

By studying biomarkers known to be involved in gastrointestinal cancers, researchers have developed a biomarker algorithm that, when combined with a noninvasive method to collect esophageal cells for ...

The search used the terms "Barrett's Esophagus" OR "Barrett's Esophagus ... BE was recognized on endoscopy and confirmed histologically as specialized intestinal metaplasia (SIM).

GERD is short for gastroesophageal reflux disease. It is a chronic disease where the contents of the stomach, particularly acid, reflux into the esophagus. The acid, through various mechanisms, ...

The esophagus is a muscular tube that moves food and liquids from your mouth to your stomach. In esophageal cancer ... MRI or PET scans), a barium swallow or an endoscopy exam. If one of these tests ...