EGD Test (Esophagogastroduodenoscopy)
This exam involves guiding a tubular, flexible instrument through your mouth and into your esophagus, stomach, and first portion of your small intestine.
Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
This procedure involves guiding a flexible, lighted tube-like instrument into the rectum and lower colon.
Wireless Capsule Endoscopy
This is a procedure that uses a tiny wireless camera to take pictures of your digestive tract. A capsule endoscopy camera sits inside a vitamin-size capsule you swallow. As the capsule travels through your digestive tract, the camera takes thousands of pictures that are transmitted to a recorder you wear on a belt around your waist.
ERCP Exam (Endoscopic retrograde cholangio pancreatography)
This procedure combines an upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy and x-rays to treat problems of the bile and pancreatic ducts.
Patient Information
Do not eat or drink anything after midnight the night before the procedure, or 6 to 8 hours prior to, depending on the time of your procedure. A small amount of liquid may be taken in order to swallow any essential medications.
Colonoscopy
Colonoscopy is a procedure that involves the endoscopic examination of the large bowel and the distal part of the small bowel using a flexible tube equipped with a CCD or fiber optic camera, passed through the anus.
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