EndoFLIP is a diagnostic tool for gastrointestinal issues. Learn about the procedure, how to prepare for it, and what it diagnoses.

An endoscopy is a procedure that can help diagnose and sometimes treat a stomach ulcer. It involves putting a thin tube with a camera attached down your esophagus and into your stomach.

The esophagus is the tube that connects your mouth to your stomach. Barrett’s esophagus is a condition where the tissue in your lower esophagus becomes damaged. It starts to resemble the tissue in ...

What Causes Barrett's Esophagus? Your esophagus is a tube that runs from the pharynx (back of your throat) to the top of your stomach.

An endoscopy can’t directly show cirrhosis in the liver. But an upper endoscopy can help diagnose cirrhosis by looking for other signs of liver disease, such as esophageal varices, which are ...

When your doctor says he needs to look inside your esophagus and stomach, that usually means deep sedation and a scope down your throat. Now, a new less-daunting option for children is giving ...

Learn about transoral incisionless fundoplication procedures. Discover when these procedures are necessary and what the recovery process looks like.

Researchers in Germany and Austria have developed a dual-imaging endoscopy capsule technique, dubbed O2E, that more accurately detects precancerous and cancerous changes in the esophagus. The team ...

Previously, the only way to detect esophageal cancer was an endoscopy, which requires the patient to be sedated for a few hours. But the new Cytosponge takes just seven minutes and the patient is ...

If the upper endoscopy is being performed to screen for Barrett's esophagus, then it is recommended that the patient remain on a PPI for at least 8 weeks before the endoscopy.