Pediatric Gastroenterology Outpatient Clinic（番禺院区）

The Pediatric Gastroenterology service combines clinical care, teaching and research. It has inpatient and outpatient services, a pediatric digestive endoscopy room and a gastrointestinal motility laboratory. Its 13 physicians include three chief physicians, two associate chief physicians and eight attending physicians; six hold master's degrees. Its specialties include pediatric digestive endoscopy, gastrointestinal motility, hepatobiliary diseases and nutritional support, with consultations and guidance for difficult cases from other hospitals. Care is coordinated across specialty clinics, wards and follow-up.

Conditions include gastroesophageal reflux, refractory recurrent vomiting, achalasia, acute and chronic gastritis, peptic ulcers, gastrointestinal bleeding, Helicobacter pylori infection, food-protein allergies, childhood diarrhea, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, unexplained abdominal pain, refractory constipation, fecal incontinence, acute and chronic pancreatitis, liver diseases, digestive tract foreign bodies, short bowel syndrome, Peutz–Jeghers syndrome, gastrointestinal strictures, acute and chronic appendicitis, severe malnutrition, malabsorption and hand-foot-and-mouth disease.

Endoscopy includes gastroscopy, colonoscopy, enteroscopy and capsule endoscopy, including bedside and neonatal examinations; foreign-body and polyp removal, endoscopic clipping and tube placement, esophageal balloon dilation, endoscopic submucosal dissection and mucosal resection, endoscopic retrograde appendicitis therapy and combined intraoperative endoscopy. Motility services include 24-hour esophageal pH-impedance monitoring, high-resolution anorectal manometry and biofeedback for constipation or fecal incontinence. Tests include abdominal and pelvic-floor MRI, MR imaging of intrahepatic bile ducts, abdominal CT, hepatobiliary-pancreatic and appendix ultrasound, liver elastography, a carbon-13 breath test, H. pylori stool antigen, stool pathogen testing and stool testing for lactose intolerance. Equipment includes an Olympus 290 endoscopy system, IntroMedic MiroCam capsule endoscopy, a Dutch MMS motility system and pediatric carbon-13 breath testing equipment.