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Digestive endoscopy

Service
Digestive endoscopy

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Emergencies 24/7

Visit our headquarters in via the sea, Km 8, Cartagena, Colombia

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diagnostic and interventional endoscopic procedures

+1500

Diagnostic and interventional endoscopic procedures
gastroenterology consultations

+1200

Gastroenterology consultations
de complicaciones menores y sin complicaciones mayores endoscópicas.

Less than 1%

of minor complications and no major endoscopic complications.
de complicaciones menores y sin complicaciones mayores endoscópicas.

+95%

Complete colonoscopies with quality criteria in endoscopic procedures, with good and excellent preparations
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About the service

We provide comprehensive care to adults with digestive pathologies in all scenarios, outpatient and hospitalization, with a higher value.

We perform procedures such as diagnostic and therapeutic esophagogastroduodenoscopy, diagnostic total colonoscopy, therapeutic total colonoscopy, and endoscopic retrograde cholangiography.

Technology

In the Digestive Endoscopy service we have state-of-the-art digestive endoscopy equipment. Diagnostic and therapeutic upper and lower digestive endoscopy, endoscopic and hepatobiliary ultrasonography.

Why choose us?
  • Because the Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy service at Hospital Serena del Mar has state-of-the-art equipment, spacious procedure rooms, and comfortable recovery spaces. 
  • We have professionals specialized in clinical Gastroenterology. 
  • We provide care to our patients by specialists in Gastroenterology and digestive endoscopy graduates of accredited academic programs in the country with the highest educational standards. 
  • The care we provide to our patients in the Digestive Endoscopy service is comprehensive, we have outpatient, emergency, hospitalization services, prevention and promotion programs, multidisciplinary care with other medical and surgical services; 
  • We guarantee continuous care for our patients. We have the support of the Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy Unit of the Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá University Hospital. We hold multidisciplinary medical meetings with experts in different areas of clinical care in gastroenterology in cases with complex gastrointestinal pathologies.
When to consult?

Patients can consult the Digestive Endoscopy service of the Hospital Serena del Mar for the following pathologies.

  • Screening or check-up studies in search of identifying pre-cancer lesions of the digestive tract (gastric cancer, colon cancer, etc.). Patients who want to undergo check-up studies for the promotion and prevention of digestive cancer. 
  • Functional diseases and those of the brain-intestine axis (gastroesophageal reflux, dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic constipation, chronic diarrhea, achalasia, digestive motility disorders, swallowing disorders ).
  • Patients with digestive bleeding (gastric and duodenal peptic ulcer disease, colitis and proctitis of different etiology, inflammatory bowel disease, vascular and variceal lesions). Vomiting with blood, stools with blood, black stools that suggest digestive bleeding. 
  • Study of functional chronic abdominal pain. (colic, cramps, abdominal distension). 
  • Hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases (cystic and neoplastic lesions of the pancreas and bile ducts, benign biliary pathologies such as gallstones, fatty liver and liver cirrhosis). Patients with jaundice (yellow mucous membranes, orange urine and pale stools). 
  • Patients who require alternate feeding nutritions such as endoscopic gastrostomies.

Our subspecialties and medical team

Gastroenterology It is the specialty of medicine that is responsible for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases of the digestive system.

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