In June 2003, the Medical Center opened a new state-of-the-art Endoscopy Center. The 10,000-square-foot facility is located across the street from the Medical Center and has an underground walkway for the convenience of our patients and staff. It has a modern, spacious design with a waiting room capacity for more than fifty-five people.
The Center has six procedure rooms with the latest in state-of-the-art equipment that allows our board-certified team of gastroenterologists and pulmonologists to perform all endoscopic procedures in the safest and most technologically advanced setting possible. Our patients enjoy a comfortable setting in which to have their procedures and recuperate.
The Center is staffed with a culturally diverse team that can provide both information and education to our patients in Russian, Chinese (Mandarin & Cantonese) and Spanish. The Center is also equipped with the deaf talk system.
Procedures performed in our endoscopic center include:
DIAGNOSTIC ENDOSCOPY
- Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
- Esophagoscopy
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Colonoscopy
- Endoscopic Ultrasonography
- Small Bowel Enteroscopy
THERAPEUTIC ENDOSCOPY
- Esophageal Dilataion
- Bougie (Maloney, Savary)
- Pneumatic (TTS, Achalsia)
- Esophageal Variceal Sclerotherapy
- Esophageal Variceal Banding
- Esophageal Stent Placement
- Control of GI Bleeding
- Sclerotherapy (alcohol, sclerosant)
- Thermal (heater probe, electrocoagualation, laser)
- Foreign Body Removal
- Endoscopic Ultrasound
- Guided Fine Needle Cytology
- Electrosurgery
- Polypectomy
- Papillotomy
- Sphincterotomy
- Endo Cinch
- Endoluminal Gastoplication
- Ablation of Mucosal Lesions
- Hot biopsy (biploar/monoploar)
- Laser Nd:YAG
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Jejunostomy
- Endoscopic Diagnosis of Pancreatic & Biliary Disease
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Common Bile Duct Stent
- Pancreatic Duct Stent Placement
- Mechanical Lithotripsy
- Nasobiliary Drain Placement
- Esophageal Manometry and pH study
- Liver biopsy