The Department of Gastroenterology is the oldest and largest department at Al Safwa Hospital. The department offers a full range of treatments for gastrointestinal, pancreatic, and liver diseases. It is supervised by Dr. Serageldin Zakaria, founder of the hospital and former head of Gastroenterology department at Kasr Al-Ainy hospitals.
Services:
Diagnostic Endoscopy
- Esophago-gastroduodenoscopy
- Colonoscopy
- Double balloon enteroscopy
- Narrow Band Imaging
ERCP
- Biliary endotherapy
- Pancreatic endotherapy
- Endoscopic cystogastrostomy
Endoscopic Ultrasound
- Diagnostic pancreaticobiliary EUS
- Anorectal EUS
- Esophageal EUS
- Gastric EUS
- Mediastinum EUS
- EUS guided FNAC
- EUS guided cystogastrostomy
- EUS guided celiac plexus neurolysis
Therapeutic Endoscopy
- Endoscopic variceal banding
- Endoscopic sclerotherapy
- Endo-clipping
- Endo-looping
- Polypectomy
- Argon plasma coagulation
- Endoscopic dilatation
- SEMS placement
- EMR (Endoscopic Mucosal Resection)
- 24-hour pH measurement