Gastroenterology

The Department of Gastroenterology has 25 physicians, including 3 with senior professional titles and 7 with associate senior professional titles, as well as 2 doctoral supervisors and 6 master’s supervisors. It has 80 inpatient beds and receives more than 55,000 outpatient visits annually. The digestive endoscopy room is equipped with Olympus 290/260 endoscopes and Fujinon endoscopes. Six diagnostic and treatment procedure rooms simultaneously perform endoscopic diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, with more than 30,000 endoscopic diagnostic and therapeutic procedures completed annually. It is a deputy chairperson unit of the Heilongjiang Society of Gastroenterology and the Heilongjiang Society of Digestive Endoscopy. At present, the Department of Gastroenterology has formed an academic team of a certain size and with a reasonable structure, comprising discipline leaders, reserve discipline leaders, and academic backbones. While completing a large amount of routine work, it also continues to innovate in the field of endoscopic treatment.

The department has developed new medical technologies advanced nationally and within the province:

1. Endoscopic ligation for bleeding from esophageal varices, sclerotherapy injection for hemostasis, and tissue adhesive injection for hemostasis of gastric fundal varices;

2. Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) and endoscopic mucosal dissection (ESD) for gastric, esophageal, and colonic intraepithelial neoplasia and early cancer;

3. Endoscopic dissection and removal of stromal tumors;

4. Stent placement for the treatment of benign and malignant strictures of the stomach, colon, and esophagus;

5. Endoscopic ultrasonography;

6. Ultra-thin transnasal gastroscopy;

7. ERCP bile duct stone extraction, bile duct stent placement, and drainage;

8. Endoscopic gastrostomy;

9. Painless endoscopy performed in cooperation with the Department of Anesthesiology.