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Oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (OGDS) is used to investigate oesophagus, stomach and duodenum and help to discover various inflammatory and tumor diseases. The most frequent illnesses are oesophagits, gastritis, which are sometimes combined with erosions or ulcers of upper parts of gastrointestinal tract. The most threatening diseases are malignant tumors of stomach or oesophagus. Early endoscopic investigation of such pathology makes the following treatment successful.

Colonoscopy is used to investigate large intestine and terminal part of ileum. It helps to diagnose various forms of colitis, disturbance of intestine tone and peristalsis, erosions and ulcers. Benign neoplasms (polipuses) are rather frequent. The most threatening disease is large intestine cancer.

Polypectomy – endoscopic removal of polipuses –is the method that helps to prevent malignant diseases of gastrointestinal tract. Special endoscopic instruments (electrodes, loops) go through the gastro – or colonoscope and remove polipuses before they transform into cancer. This method is painless and helps to avoid cavernous operations.

AMC owns unique endoscopic equipment, which gives an opportunity to perform endoscopic investigations (gastroscopy, colonoscopy) and polypectomy through endoscopes. The Endoscopy Department is headed by Igor Kyrianov, MD, the founder of Painless Endoscopy Method and out-patient polipuses removal.

Advantages:

• Unique modern video – endoscopic equipment EXERA (Olympus).

• Small endoscopes for children gastroscopy

• Advancing – rotary colonoscopy – very informative and painless method of large intestine investigation

• An opportunity to perform gastroscopy and colonoscopy with general anesthetic, in-patient. The discovered neoplasms are analyzed (biopsy) and removed.

• Multilevel sterilization of endoscopes and instruments with the help of special washing machine

• Highly – professional consultation of gastroentherologyst on the day the investigation

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