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The services we provide are the following: 1. Real-time ultrasound (US) of abdominal organs
2. Duplex and color-Doppler US of abdominal vessels
3. Diagnostic punctures and biopsies under US control
4. Drainage procedures of different collections in the abdominal organs/cavity
5. Biliary drainage procedures
6. Biliogastrostomy, cystogastrostomy procedures, applying endoprosthesis under US control.
7. Percutaneous ethanol injection sclerotherapy of small tumors under US control
8. Upper and lower endosonography
9. Upper GI Endoscopy, Duodenoscopy
10. Upper endoscopic biopsy, polypectomy
11. Endoscopic hemostasis of upper GI bleedings
12. Endoscopic extraction of foreign bodies
13. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (diagnostic and therapeutic)
14. Sigmoidoscopy
15. Colonoscopy
16. Lower endoscopic biopsy, polypectomy
17. Rubber band ligation of hemorrhoidal bleeding
18. Ambulatory 24 hours pH-metry
19. Application of enteral and parenteral nutrition
In the Clinic of Gastroenterohepatology due to this broad spectrum of procedures, on ambulatory basis, every year are done around 10 000 ultrasound investigations, more than 5000 gastroscopies, around 1000 sigmoidoscopies and more than 1000 colonoscopies.
The number of interventional procedures under US guidance (biopsies, drainages, endoprosthesis application) approaches 1200, and the number of procedures under fluoroscopic control (ERCP, endoprosthesis application) reaches 350. Endoscopic therapeutic procedures, like polypectomies or endoscopic hemostasis, reaches number of 300 pts per year. |