What diseases does the Department of Gastroenterology treat?

Young people nowadays like to stay up late playing with their mobile phones due to the high pressure of life and busy work hours. This leads to lack of sleep and lack of energy at work, so they use the time for breakfast to make up for their sleep. Irregular diet will cause various stomach diseases. Over time, without treatment and maintenance, stomach problems will develop. Gastroenterology can treat stomach diseases, but what other diseases can it treat besides stomach diseases?

Gastroenterology is a tertiary clinical discipline that mainly studies diseases of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, gallbladder and pancreas. There are many types of gastroenterological diseases, the medical knowledge is broad, and the operations are complex and delicate.

Physician Qualification

Physicians in gastroenterology training must obtain the qualification of internal medicine specialist (or receive standardized internal medicine residency training) before they can receive this stage of training. The training period for gastroenterologists lasts for 3 years.

Digestive Diseases

Digestive diseases are divided into five parts: gastrointestinal diseases, liver diseases, pancreatic and biliary diseases, endoscopy and other diseases.

From the table of contents of "Gastroenterology Diagnosis and Treatment Routine - Peking Union Medical College Hospital Medical Diagnosis and Treatment Routine", we can roughly understand the various diseases targeted by the Department of Gastroenterology:

Chapter 1 Common Symptoms

1. Esophageal diseases: esophagitis, esophageal cancer, esophageal achalasia, etc.

2. Gastric and duodenal diseases: gastritis, peptic ulcer, gastric cancer, gastrointestinal dysfunction, duodenal cancer, etc.

3. Small intestine diseases: acute enteritis, intestinal tuberculosis, acute hemorrhagic necrotizing enteritis, Crohn's disease, etc.

4. Colon diseases: dysentery, ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, colorectal cancer, etc.

5. Liver diseases: hepatitis, cirrhosis, liver parasitic disease, liver abscess, primary liver cancer, etc.

6. Biliary tract diseases: cholelithiasis, cholecystitis, cholangitis, biliary ascariasis, gallbladder cancer, etc.

7. Pancreatic diseases: acute, chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer.

8. Peritoneal and mesenteric diseases: peritonitis, mesenteric lymph node tuberculosis, peritoneal carcinomatosis, etc.