Gastroenterología y Hepatología

Members of the Comprehensive GI Clinic have broad interests in gastrointestinal diseases and expertise to evaluate and manage challenging diagnostic cases. Areas of interest include the following:

• AIDS-related diarrheal illnesses
• Diverticulitis
• Constipation
• Disorders of malabsorption (celiac disease, Whipple's disease, lymphangiectasia)
• Eosinophilic gastroenteritis
• Gastric cancer and gastric polyps
• Gastrointestinal hemorrhage (subacute or chronic)
• Infectious colitis or infectious enteritis
• Iron deficiency anemia
• Peptic ulcer disease and other manifestations of helicobacter pylori infection
• Radiation enteropathy
• Radiation colopathy
• Sclerosing mesenteritis

Patients may be referred to the Comprehensive GI Clinic with gastrointestinal symptoms that are not clearly related to a particular GI subspecialty clinic. Some of these nonspecific symptoms include the following:

• Nausea and vomiting
• Subacute or chronic abdominal pain
• Subacute or chronic diarrhea
• Weight loss of unknown cause