Digestive Health
Gastroenterology Services
The physicians and medical professionals at Sturdy Health - Gastroenterology are committed to providing the highest quality digestive and gastroenterology care for you. A gastroenterologist is a physician who specializes in disorders and conditions of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, also called the digestive tract.
We evaluate and treat the following problems and/or diseases:
- Abdominal pain
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Pancreas problems
- Diverticulosis
- Peptic ulcer disease
- Bile duct stones
- Gas
- Hepatitis
- Pancreatic disease
- Biliary tract disease
- Heartburn/indigestion
- Liver problems
- Rectal bleeding
- Acid reflux
- Cirrhosis
- Colon polyps
- Crohn's disease
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Ulcerative colitis
Procedures & Tests
We perform video capsule endoscopy studies and treatment for hepatitis on-site at Sturdy Health - Gastroenterology. Other procedures that are performed at Sturdy Memorial Hospital include:
- Abdominal paracentesis
- Colonoscopy
- ERCP (Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography)
- including removal of common bile duct stones and biliary stenting
- Esophageal pH testing
- Esophageal stenting
- Flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Gastric feeding tube placement
- Hemorrhoidal banding
- Liver biopsy
- Polypectomy
- Upper endoscopy
- Endoscopic ultrasound
- Endoscopic mucosal resection
