Consultation of gastroenterologist

Gastroenterologists of Dobrobut clinic chain will provide you with the qualified and comprehensive aid in diagnostics and treatment of any digestive system pathologies at all the stages of the disease.

A consultation by gastroenterologist includes an attentive interview of a patient on his or her complaints and case record, checkup, plan of diagnostic measures, prescription of pharmacological therapy and recommendations on the diet.

The main diseases of the digestive system treated by the gastroenterologists of Dobrobut clinic chain are:

• gallbladder diseases (cholecystitis, chronic cholecystitis, gallbladder dyskinesia, biliary engorgement);
• bowel diseases (irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), diverticular disease, inflammatory bowel diseases, such as nonspecific ulcerative colitis (NUC) and Crohn’s disease (CD), small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome);
• liver diseases (fatty liver disease, hepatitis, excluding infectious hepatitis, cirrhosis and toxic liver damage);
• small and large intestine diseases;
• pancreatic diseases (chronic pancreatitis);
• bileduct diseases (sclerosing cholangitis, primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC));
• esophagus diseases (reflux disease, esophagus erosions);
• stomach diseases (chronic gastritis, Helicobacter pylori infection, duodenogastric reflux (DGR), gastric ulcer);
• duodenal diseases (duodenitis, duodenal ulcer).

Dobrobut clinic chain doctors use evidence-based medicine techniques of treatment of gastroenterological diseases included in international protocols.

When you should visit a gastroenterologist

Many gastrointestinal diseases manifest with slight symptoms that do not bother a patient a lot. However, ignoring of certain symptoms can inform about serious health problems.

If you have one of the following symptoms, you have to visit a gastroenterologist for a consultation urgently:

• abdominal pain;
• epigastric burning;
• abdominal distention;
• intestinal obstruction or diarrhea;
• difficulties when swallowing;
• nausea, vomiting;
• feeling of partially void bowels;
• absence of appetite;
• abrupt weight loss;
• blood in stool.

Gastroenterologists of Dobrobut clinic chain work in the area of diagnostics, treatment and prevention of gastrointestinal diseases using modern methods of evidence-based medicine. More than 100 patients a day visit our gastroenterologists in Dobrobut clinics. Gastroenterologists, endoscopists, surgical service work in this sector.

Diagnostics

Dobrobut clinic chain has the complete modern technological base to run quality medical examinations, from labs to endoscopy with the possibility of the detailed study of the mucous coat of stomach, esophagus and duodenum. Our specialists also successfully undertake such medical procedures as removal of polyps and ultrasound examination with elastography of liver, CT and MRI.