Diverticular Disease, Hemorrhoids, and Constipation Diet plays a vital role in your overall gastrointestinal health. What you eat directly impacts common conditions like diverticular disease, hemorrhoids, and chronic constipation. What is diverticulosis? Diverticulosis is a condition in which the wall
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Diet and Colon Health
Category: Diet and Colon Health
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Understanding Bowel Preparation
Category: Understanding Bowel Preparation
It is extremely important that your colon be thoroughly cleaned before your colonoscopy. This will let the doctor see any abnormalities, such as colon polyps, during the procedure. Polyps are small growths in the colon that could later turn into cancer. Cleansing the colon before a colonoscopy is called
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Understanding Capsule Endoscopy
Category: Understanding Capsule Endoscopy
Capsule endoscopy is a test that uses a pill-sized camera that you swallow in order to examine the inside of the small intestine. The small intestine is the middle portion of your gastrointestinal tract, located between your stomach and your large intestine (colon). The small intestine is made up of
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Understanding Colonoscopy
Category: Understanding Colonoscopy
What is colonoscopy? Gastroenterologists use colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer. This minimally invasive endoscopic procedure enables doctors to examine the lining of a patient’s rectum and large intestine (colon) for abnormalities. When they perform a colonoscopy, gastroenterologists pass
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Understanding Colorectal Cancer Screening
Category: Understanding Colorectal Cancer Screening
Colorectal Cancer Screening Saves Lives More than 130,000 Americans are diagnosed with colorectal cancer every year and nearly 50,000 of them die from the disease. Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. after lung cancer. Despite being preventable, more than 30 percent
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Understanding Crohn’s Disease
Category: Understanding Crohn’s Disease
What is Crohn’s disease? Crohn’s disease is a form of chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in which there are patches or segments of inflammation in any portion of the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus. The inflammation in Crohn’s disease is most often located in the lower part
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Understanding Diverticulosis
Category: Understanding Diverticulosis
What is diverticulosis? Diverticulosis is a condition that occurs when the innermost layer of the digestive tract pushes through weak spots in the outermost layer of the digestive tract – resulting in small pouches or pockets. Diverticula generally form in the lower part of the large intestine (i.e.,
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Understanding ERCP
Category: Understanding ERCP
What is ERCP? Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, or ERCP, is a specialized technique used to study the bile ducts, pancreatic duct and sometimes, the gallbladder. Ducts are drainage tubes or channels. The drainage channels from the liver to the intestine are called bile ducts and those from
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