What is Therapeutic Endoscopy?
Overview
Advanced Therapeutic and Interventional Endoscopy is a highly specialized subset of endoscopy which utilizes advanced endoscopic techniques to treat a variety of diseases of the GI tract, all through an endoscope that is inserted via the oral cavity or rectum.
Examples
- Gastroscopy
- Colonoscopy
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Cholangioscopy
- Radiofrequency ablation (RFA)
- Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR)
- Endoscopic submucosal disection (ESD)
- Per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM)
- Gastric per-oral endoscopic myotomy (GPOEM)
- Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)
- EUS biopsy
- EUS guided cyst-gastrostomy (drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts)
- EUS gall bladder drainage