Digestive Diseases Hospital – Gastroenterology Department 1

Gastroenterology Department I of the Gastroenterology Hospital of Heilongjiang Provincial Hospital was established simultaneously with the establishment of the Gastroenterology Hospital in 2001. It currently has 12 physicians, including 6 chief and associate chief physicians and 6 attending physicians; 4 have doctoral degrees and 8 have master’s degrees. There are 13 nurses.

The Gastroenterology Hospital of the Provincial Hospital is a National Key Clinical Specialty. As a department established at the same time as the Gastroenterology Hospital, Gastroenterology Department I draws on its extensive clinical experience and comprehensive professional skills to provide patients with precise and efficient medical services. The department upholds the service philosophy of “patient-centered care,” closely integrating advanced medical technology with humanistic care and, from the moment patients enter the department, initiating comprehensive, full-cycle health protection. The department has cutting-edge diagnostic and treatment capabilities, while placing greater emphasis on patients’ healthcare experience. It is committed to creating a comfortable and convenient healthcare environment and providing assurance for patients’ road to recovery.

The department carries out numerous examinations and treatments for diseases of the digestive system. Its distinctive techniques include: endoscopic treatment of common bile duct stones (including laser lithotripsy under cholangioscopy for giant or impacted common bile duct stones) and benign and malignant biliary strictures; percutaneous transhepatic cholangioscopy-guided laser lithotripsy for intrahepatic bile duct stones or difficult common bile duct stones; endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for the treatment of gastrointestinal polyps, adenomas, early gastrointestinal cancer, and submucosal tumors; EUS diagnosis of submucosal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract; EUS-guided fine-needle puncture biopsy for pathological characterization and diagnosis of diseases of the digestive system; EUS-guided interventional treatment of pancreatic pseudocysts; ultrasound-guided percutaneous puncture drainage for the treatment of liver cysts and liver abscesses; capsule endoscopy and enteroscopy for the diagnosis of small-intestinal diseases; 24-hour esophageal PH monitoring; endoscopic interventional treatment of benign and malignant gastrointestinal strictures; endoscopic placement of small-intestinal nutrition tubes; endoscopic treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding caused by various conditions; and peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) for the treatment of achalasia of the cardia, among other procedures.