Digestive Disorders Treated
Emory’s expert team of gastroenterology and liver specialists is devoted to providing patient-centered, comprehensive care for digestive disorders, including inflammatory bowel disease, pancreas and bile duct disorders, liver failure, and impaired gastrointestinal motility.
Emory is a leader in the field of hepatology, with one of the only intensive care units in the country dedicated to liver failure and a nationally recognized liver transplant program. In addition, we offer cutting-edge, minimally invasive advanced endoscopic therapies for a number of disorders including achalasia, gastroparesis, obesity, esophageal disorders, and endoscopic removal of lesions.
Most of our physicians have particular interests in the broad field of digestive disorders, including:
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Endoscopic ultrasound (high-definition imaging technology) and study of the pancreas
- Endoscopic weight loss therapies and therapy of bariatric complications
- Endoscopic submucosal dissection
- Per-oral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) for treatment of achalasia
- Gastric per-oral endoscopic myotomy (GPOEM) for treatment of gastroparesis
- Device-assisted deep enteroscopy for evaluation and therapy of small bowel diseases
- Gastrointestinal motility and irritable bowel syndrome
- Liver failure, liver transplantation and liver cancer
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and Spyglass cholangioscopy
- EndoFLIP for assessment of esophageal motility disorders
- Fecal transplant for treatment of refractory Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea