The Pediatric Gastroenterologists at Methodist Physicians | Pediatric Specialists of Texas care for infants, children and adolescents with digestive system, liver, and nutritional problems.
They specialize in the following procedures and conditions:
Procedures:
- Endoscopy & capsule endoscopy
- Capsule Endoscopy
- Flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Colonoscopy
- Therapeutic endoscopy: esophageal dilatation; control of variceal bleeding (sclerotherapy, banding); polypectomy; foreign body removal
- ERCP
- Intraesophageal pH monitoring
- Intestinal motility
- Impedance testing
- Rectal suction biopsy
- Percutaneous liver biopsy
Conditions:
- Chronic diarrhea/malabsorption syndromes
- Feeding problems and swallowing disorders(with & without feeding tubes)
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Constipation
- Inflammatory bowel disease: Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis
- Chronic abdominal pain
- Celiac disease
- Polyp syndromes
- Eosinophilic esophagitis
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Food allergies
- Acute and chronic hepatitis
- Short bowel syndrome
- Failure to thrive
- Jaundice
