ITM Hospital of Gastroenterology Care

Overview

The Gastroenterology Department of the ITM Hospital, Gwalior, is determined to provide patient-focused and modernized care of a broad range of hepato-biliary disease. We have incorporated the most current diagnostic and treatment methods with care to make sure that your gastrointestinal health and quality of life is restored and maintained.

What We Offer

Comprehensive Assessment & Diagnosis: The gastroenterology department having skilled professionals are well trained to identify symptoms and signs of gastrointestinal (GI) tract problems: heartburn, acid reflux (GERD), abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhoea, constipation, and more complicated disorders, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Such diagnostic methods include endoscopy (upper GI endoscopy / oesophago-gastroduodenoscopy), colonoscopy, imaging (ultrasound, CT/MR enterography), stool and blood tests, H. pylori testing, liver function tests, and biopsy when necessary.

Medical & Pharmacologic Treatments: Our medical interventions are based on evidence: proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), H2 blockers, antacids, prokinetic agents, antiemetics, biologic agents against IBD, immunomodulators, infection antibiotics, and specialised treatment of motility disorders. We have expertise in hepatic (liver) diseases, including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), jaundice, cirrhosis, viral hepatitis (Hepatitis B, C), and other metabolic liver diseases.

Procedural & Endoscopic Services: Our department has the strength of minimally invasive procedures. They are diagnostic and therapeutic upper GI endoscopy, colonoscopy (screening and surveillance), endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) of the biliary and pancreas, polypectomy, mucosal biopsies, dilatation of strictures, variceal banding and stenting. We also provide endoscopic management of bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract, extraction of foreign objects and PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) insertion when necessary.

Liver & Pancreatic Care: We offer services also in the assessment and treatment of liver diseases- viral hepatitis treatment, fatty liver disease (steatosis, steatohepatitis), cirrhosis, portal hypertension, surveillance of liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma), management of ascites, hepatic encephalopathy. We also manage such pancreatic conditions as pancreatitis (acute and chronic), pancreatic cysts, and pancreatic insufficiency.

Functional & Motility Disorders: In the case of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), gastroparesis, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), constipation, faecal incontinence, and similar motility related disorders, we provide with diagnostic measures (manometry, gastric emptying studies), and specific therapies.

Nutrition & Liver Supportive Care: Nutritional counselling is also essential: particularly in such diseases as malabsorption syndromes (celiac disease, tropical sprue), exacerbations of inflammation, bowel diseases, pancreatic insufficiency, and the patients after surgery. We even facilitate the administration of parenteral and enteral nutrition where necessary. The liver supportive care also entails the monitoring of synthetic liver functioning, management of complication and liaising with transplant centres where necessary.

Preventive Gastroenterology & Screening: Emphasis on early detection: colorectal cancer screening, dysplasia surveillance in IBD, screening for viral hepatitis, endoscopic surveillance of Barrett’s oesophagus, H. pylori management to reduce risk of gastric cancer. Patient education on diet, lifestyle, alcohol moderation, smoking cessation, maintaining healthy weight, and safe medication use are integral to keeping the digestive system healthy.

Detection at an earlier stage: screening of colorectal cancer, surveillance of dysplasia in IBD, screening of viral hepatitis, surveillance of Barrett oesophagus by the use of endoscopy, management of H. pylori to avoid gastric cancer. Education of patients regarding diet, lifestyle, alcoholic moderation, smoking cessation, maintaining normal weight, and safe medication use are integral to keeping the digestive system healthy.

Why Choose ITM Gastroenterology

• Well seasoned professionals who have specialized in routine as well as complicated GI/liver diseases.
• State of the art infrastructure: digital endoscopy rooms, advanced imaging (CT /MR, ultrasound) labs with histopathology, microbiology and molecular testing.
• Multidisciplinary care: The surgeon of GI, radiologists, nutritionists, pathologists, intensive care unit specialists participate in the process of customizing the plan of treatment.
• Customized interventions based on severity, comorbidity, patient lifestyle, preferences; everywhere possible, intervention approaches that may be described as minimal-invasive and patient-friendly.
• Devotion to safety, sterility, patient comfort, pain control and after care.