Gastroenterology: What We Treat
The Gastroenterology team at Children's provides the latest care for children with digestive and nutritional disorders, including:
- Abdominal pain
- Acute liver failure
- Allergic and eosinophilic disorders
- Chronic vomiting
- Constipation
- Diarrhea and malabsorption
- Failure to thrive
- Feeding disorders
- Gastroesophageal reflux (GER)
- Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding
- Vascular malformations
- Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis)
- Intestinal failure/Short bowel syndrome
- Liver diseases
- Liver transplantation
- Metabolic disorders affecting gastrointestinal function
- Metabolic liver diseases
- Motility disorders
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
- Pancreatic diseases
- Peptic ulcer disease
- Viral hepatitis
Together with the divisions of Pediatric Surgery, Transplantation, Pulmonology and Pathology, the Gastroenterology team collaborates to provide additional treatment options for gastrointestinal, liver and nutritional disorder patients. Some of the procedures offered, are:
- Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy (including upper endoscopy, colonoscopy, capsule endoscopy and small bowel enteroscopy)
- Gastrointestinal manometry (antroduodenal, colonic and anorectal)
- ERCP
- Liver biopsy
- Breath tests
- Esophageal impedance and pH studies
