Sven Hida, MD, a gastroenterologist who recently joined Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center, performed the hospital's first peroralendoscopic myotomy procedure, according to HealthCanal. Here are five ...

Sponsored FOY G-POEM Procedure Helps Patients Eat Foods They Love Sunil Amin, M.D., a gastroenterologist at UHealth, the University of Miami Health System, explains what gastroparesis is and how a ...

An endoscope with a transparent cap enters through a 2 cm mucosal incision into the submucosal “third” space, approximately 5 cm proximal to the lower esophageal sphincter. Four distinct tissue layers ...

Endoscopy is a way to examine your digestive tract with a camera, called an endoscope. The endoscope is a flexible tube with a light and the camera attached. Through this state-of-the-art technology, ...

A therapeutic endoscopic procedure provides treatment that is carried out via the endoscope. A procedure, which starts as a diagnostic or screening endoscopy, may become a therapeutic endoscopy ...