Endoscopy; Endoscopy, which is used not only for diagnosis but also for follow-up and treatment purposes in stomach and intestinal diseases, is the process of making the organs to be examined visible by reaching the organs that cannot be seen from the outside with the naked eye using special
devices.
The age of the patient and the duration of the complaint are effective in determining this necessity.
Certain situations where endoscopy can be applied; It is effective for patients with weight loss, anemia, presence of ulcers or cancer in the family, nausea or vomiting of unknown cause, difficulty in swallowing, reflux symptoms that do not respond to treatments, upper gastrointestinal system bleeding and suspicion of ulcer
> can be a diagnostic and treatment tool.
Endoscopy procedure; Depending on the type, it is performed by numbing only the throat with local anesthesia or by giving intravenous medication to completely anesthetize the patient.
Unless there is a special situation, the endoscopy procedure is a painless procedure that takes only 10 minutes. Endoscopy can be used not only for imaging and diagnosis, but also as a treatment tool. Active bleeding can be stopped with endoscopy, and esophageal varices in patients with cirrhosis
can be intervened. Additionally, reflux patients can be treated through endoscopic procedures using different
techniques. Thanks to all these
methods, it is aimed to restore the patient's health in a short time
without the need for major surgical procedures.
Endoscopy; Patients with complaints of difficulty in swallowing, chest burning, sourness, bitter water coming to the mouth, stomach ache, patients who are planned to be investigated due to anemia, patients with persistent complaints of nausea and vomiting, weight loss of unknown cause, patients who have previously
> In the control of patients who have undergone endoscopy and are given medication, in the control of patients who have undergone stomach surgery, in cases where suspicious lesions are seen as a result of other examinations such as tomography, medicated stomach film
and it is necessary to take samples from these lesions and examine them, It is performed on patients
who have brown vomiting from the mouth, fresh blood or black stools.
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