Harbor-UCLA Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology – Clinical Activities

• Over 5000 endoscopies per year
• General Endoscopy Procedures:
  EGD, Colonoscopy with Bx, polypectomy, hemostasis, over the scope closure device (OTSC),
  esophageal and anorectal manometry
• Advanced Endoscopy Procedures:

– Endosonography (EUS, about 600 per year) with FNA/FNB, pancreas pseudocyst drainage,
extraluminal abscess drainage, tumor staging and treatment,
EUS guided liver biopsy, portal and hepatic vein pressure measurements,
EUS guided gallbladder drainage, EUS guided gastrojejunostomy

– Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)

– Endoscopic Mucosal Dissection (ESD)

– Single Balloon Enteroscopy (ante- and retrograde)

– ERCP (about 500 per year) with cholangioscopy, endoscopy of the pancreatic duct,
bile and pancreatic duct stenting, schock wave lithotripsy

– Radiofrequency ablation of Barrett’s esophagus
with and without  dysplasia, treatment of radiation proctitis and angiodysplasias

– Full Thickness Endoscopic Resections (FTRD)  of polyps and tumors in the GI tract

– Endoscopic Metal Stent Placements throughout the GI tract and biliary system

– Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication (TIF, “endoscopic Nissen
Fundoplication”)