Gastroenterology

UTP gastroenterologists provide diagnosis, treatment, education and management related to conditions, such as:

• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Motility problems (the movement of food through the digestive system)
• Malabsorption – a disorder in which the body does not properly absorb nutrients from food
• Acid reflux and indigestion
• Ulcerative colitis
• Peptic ulcers
• Crohn’s disease
• Pancreatitis
• Cancer screening

UTP gastroenterologists perform procedures including upper and lower diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, ERCP, papillotomy, polypectomy, small bowel enteroscopy, double-balloon enteroscopy, esophageal, and ano-rectal motility and intestinal and liver biopsies in the fully equipped outpatient clinical gastroenterology suites with fluoroscopic capabilities.