Gastroenterology

The Department of Gastroenterology was established at the beginning of 1998. After the unremitting efforts of two generations of practitioners of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, it laid a solid foundation for its development today. Since its establishment, it has consistently followed the path of integrating traditional Chinese and Western medicine, taken gastrointestinal motility disorders as its main area of focus, and was among the earliest in the province to carry out whole-digestive-tract motility testing and treatment. It currently has 5 chief physicians, 5 deputy chief physicians, 4 attending physicians, 1 person with a doctoral degree, and 15 people with master’s degrees. The discipline emphasizes discipline development and scientific and technological innovation. In particular, in functional dyspepsia, peptic ulcer, gastroesophageal reflux disease, irritable bowel syndrome, functional constipation, cirrhosis and its complications, it adopts an approach that gives equal weight to traditional Chinese and Western medicine and treats both diseases and symptoms, achieving good therapeutic results. In 2007, it was included by the Health Department of Zhejiang Province in Zhejiang Province’s key specialty construction project for integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine. In 2018, it was included in Zhejiang Province’s “13th Five-Year Plan” key traditional Chinese medicine specialty. In 2020, it was included as a key cultivation discipline for traditional Chinese medicine spleen and stomach diseases in Hangzhou. In the basic and clinical research of functional gastrointestinal diseases such as functional dyspepsia and constipation, cirrhosis and its complications, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease NAFLD, it has conducted relatively in-depth innovative research and developed a series of compound traditional Chinese medicine preparations with definite clinical efficacy and partly elucidated mechanisms of action; the resulting achievements have already been or are currently being transferred into application. Within five years, a total of 16 projects from the National Natural Science Foundation, the Provincial Natural Science Foundation, key specialty and special-disease projects of the Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission, the Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission have been accepted or are under research. Related research findings have been published in SCI-indexed and domestic core journals in more than 30 papers, and multiple awards have been received, including the Zhejiang Provincial Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Innovation Award, the Hangzhou Medical and Health Science and Technology Innovation Award, and the Zhejiang Provincial Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Award. It is the chairing institution of the Digestive Diseases Professional Committee of the Hangzhou Society of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine. Routine procedures include gastroscopy and colonoscopy, endoscopic polypectomy, EMR, endoscopic hemostasis, digestive tract stent placement, transnasal placement of a disposable intestinal obstruction catheter, jejunal feeding tube placement, gastrostomy, esophageal variceal band ligation and sclerotherapy, ERCP common bile duct stone extraction, biliary stent placement, pancreatic duct stent placement, endoscopic ultrasonography diagnosis and treatment, early cancer screening and treatment, upper gastrointestinal foreign-body removal, gastrointestinal motility testing, and other diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. Research directions: Mechanisms of the development of colonic melanosis caused by anthraquinone drugs and research on its prevention and treatment---Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation, Hangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Commission key specialty and special-disease project, Hangzhou Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission general project Traditional Chinese medicine treatment of functional dyspepsia and refractory constipation---Hangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Commission key specialty and special-disease project, Hangzhou Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission project Mechanistic research on chronic liver disease and insulin resistance---National Natural Science Foundation, Zhejiang Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine project Mechanistic research on the regulation of lipid metabolism in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) by active components of traditional Chinese medicine---Hangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Commission key specialty and special-disease project, Zhejiang Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission project Chronic liver disease and intestinal flora dysbiosis---Hangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Commission key specialty and special-disease project, Zhejiang Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission and Zhejiang Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine projects Study of the efficacy-enhancing effect and immune mechanism of the spleen-strengthening and kidney-tonifying method on antiviral treatment for chronic hepatitis B---Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation, Hangzhou Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission project