USA Health provides patients with leading-edge treatments for a wide range of digestive conditions, from the common to the complex.
Our digestive health specialty supports treatment of various illnesses and conditions of the digestive tract. USA Health gastroenterology specialists provide advanced levels of expertise, experience and technology in treating our patients.
Our interdisciplinary team focuses on improving and maintaining the digestive health of each patient. We treat digestive health conditions such as Barrett’s esophagus, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Crohn’s disease, colitis and stomach cancer. Using less invasive techniques such as advanced endoscopy, sphincterotomy, enteroscopy and therapeutic laparoscopy, we offer our patients alternatives to more traditional surgical procedures.
As the region’s leading academic medical center, we also offer our digestive health patients with new, promising experimental therapies for many types of digestive health problems.
USA Health offers a full range of services and technology for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of digestive health conditions.
With these tests, we measure hydrogen, methane and carbon dioxide to detect digestive issues relating to lactose, fructose intolerance and bacterial overgrowth. The breath tests are particularly useful in managing irritable bowel syndrome.
This minimally invasive technology—also known as camera in a pill—allows doctors to examine and diagnose disorders of the gastrointestinal tract without having to sedate the patient.
Colonoscopy is a procedure used to search the colon and rectum for possible growths or other irregularities.
Utilizing specialized endoscopes, we can examine much farther into the small bowel. With this device, we can also control bleeding in the small intestine to often prevent the need for invasive surgery.
An endoscopic ultrasound lets our clinicians look at your upper and lower digestive tract.
We perform standard upper and lower GI endoscopy procedures, including colonoscopies, to examine the gastrointestinal tract. We have special expertise in advanced endoscopy that may be needed for removing bile duct stones, biliary and pancreatic stent placements, and evaluation of biliary and pancreatic tissues.
These tests are available to patients considering anti-reflux surgery, exhibiting atypical or non-responsive GERD symptoms or having non-cardiac chest pains that may be related to gastrointestinal disease.
Using the most advanced high-definition technology, we conduct tests that allow us to evaluate patients with GERD, non-cardiac chest pain, constipation and incontinence. These tests include esophageal and anorectal motility studies.
Our team treats esophageal disorders such as GERD and Barrett's esophagus. GERD is a chronic disease that occurs when stomach content regularly flows up into the esophagus.
The center is equipped with advanced equipment for treating digestive diseases with interventional and diagnostic radiology procedures.
Our team has special interest and expertise in diagnosing and treating patients with liver cancer, non-alcohol steatohepatitis (fatty liver), and chronic viral hepatitis.
Together with USA Health colorectal surgeons, our gastroenterologists offer integrated and comprehensive management of inflammatory bowel diseases including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
Pediatric gastroenterologists treat celiac and Crohn's disease, milk and food allergies, and other pediatric issues related to the esophagus, stomach, liver, intestines and more.
Small bowel endoscopy, or SBE, is a procedure used to diagnose and treat conditions in the small intestine. During a small bowel endoscopy, a small, flexible tube called an enteroscope is passed through your mouth, esophagus and stomach to reach the small intestine.
A swallow study allows us to diagnose digestive health issues such as ulcers, tumors, swallowing disorders, polyps, GERD and hiatal hernias.
With her stomach literally in knots, Pat Buffa couldn’t hold down food or liquids. After a quick diagnosis and surgery, she’s back doing what she loves best—power walking.
USA Health offers specialists in many areas of digestive health.
Browse DoctorsAs the leading provider of innovative healthcare for Mobile and the Gulf Coast, USA Health can provide our digestive health patients with new, promising experimental therapies through ongoing clinical trials.
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Deeksha Acharya, M.D., a cardiovascular disease fellow at USA Health, detailed the case of a 37-year-old man who suffered severe blunt chest trauma in a high-speed motor vehicle collision.
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