PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY
Evolution in technology and improvement in health care has led to an increase in the diagnosis of pediatric gastrointestinal and liver diseases. Prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the digestive tract, liver and pancreatico-biliary system in children are the core objectives of this specialty.
Our division of pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology provides treatment for the following disorders:
Gastrointestinal disorders:
- Reflux disorders
- Chronic Constipation
- Recurrent/Chronic Abdominal painv
- Recurrent vomiting
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Chronic diarrhea
- Failure to thrive/ growth faltering
- Celiac disease
- Lactose intolerance and other food allergies
Liver disorders
- Neonatal cholestasis
- Portal hypertension (porto-systemic shunts)
- Acute liver failure
- Cirrhosis/Chronic liver disease
- Metabolic liver disease
- Mitochondrial liver disease
- Autoimmune disease
- Hepatic infections
- Pediatric Liver transplant
Biliary disorders
- Biliary atresia
- Choledochal cysts
- Cholangitis
Disorders of the Pancreas
- Pancreatitis
- Pancreatic pseudo cyst
- Neoplasms of the pancreas
We offer state of art endoscopic equipment for the endoscopic procedures
Endoscopy is routinely performed at the Apollo Hospitals for the following conditions:
- Foreign body removal
- For taking biopsy from upper or lower gastrointestinal tract.
- For patients who suffer from gastrointestinal bleeding, both Banding / injection of esophageal varices and control of bleeding with adrenaline injection.
- For patients with swallowing difficulty due to esophageal stricture or achalasia, endoscopic dilatation can be carried out under fluoroscopic guidance. Similarly, dilatation of pyloric strictures can also be carried out.
- For patients for whom feeding is a problem either due to neurological disorders or altered consciousness levels, endoscopic placement of nasojejunaltube or PEG (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastronomy) tube is done.
- Endoscopic removal of gastric / colonial polyps is routinely done.
Other routine procedures like liver biopsy and diagnostic and therapeutic parenthesis are also done.
