Iowa Digestive Disease Center
Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy
Welcome to Iowa Digestive Disease Center!
Our board certified physicians and staff are available to provide you with quality and comprehensive digestive care.
Overview of What We Do
- Gastroenterology
- medical specialty that focuses on the digestive system (esophagus, stomach, large and small intestines)
- Hepatology
- medical specialty that focuses on the liver and associated organs (gallbladder, pancreas, biliary tree)
- Diagnostic Endoscopy
- looking inside the body through an endoscope (long, flexible tube) to find out what is wrong
- Therapeutic Endoscopy
- going inside the body with an endoscope (long, flexible tube) to fix a problem
What We Diagnose and Treat
- heartburn
- swallowing difficulties (dysphagia)
- intestinal bleeding
- stomach ulcers
- abdominal pain
- changes in bowel habits
- rectal bleeding
- hepatitis
- cirrhosis
- gallbladder disorders
- abnormal liver tests
- ulcerative colitis
- Crohn's disease
- celiac disease
Procedures We Use
- outpatient colon cancer screening (colonoscopy)
- EGD
- flexible sigmoidoscopy
- capsule endoscopy
- 48 hour pH testing
- advanced endoscopic therapies, including endoscopic ultrasound and the treatment of stones and strictures in the bile duct