{"id":10115,"date":"2022-01-25T15:25:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T14:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcbhospitales.com\/?post_type=especialidades&#038;p=10115"},"modified":"2026-09-01T10:11:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:11:48","slug":"digestive-medicine-endoscopies","status":"publish","type":"especialidades","link":"https:\/\/hcbhospitales.com\/en\/medical-specialities\/digestive-medicine-endoscopies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gastroenterology. Endoscopies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HCB Hospitales has a team of specialists dedicated to the diagnosis of digestive diseases and the performance of diagnostic tests specific to the specialty, such as gastrointestinal endoscopy, working closely with other specialists.<br \/>\nGastroenterology is the branch of medicine that deals with diseases affecting the digestive system and associated glandular organs (esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon, rectum, anus, liver, bile ducts, and pancreas).<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Techniques and Treatments:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Diagnostic and Therapeutic Gastroscopy.<\/li>\n<li>Diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopy.<\/li>\n<li>Biopsy of the gastrointestinal tract.<\/li>\n<li>Endoscopic polypectomy.<\/li>\n<li>Mucosectomy of lesions in the digestive tract.<\/li>\n<li>Hemostatic techniques for bleeding injuries: hemoclips, hemospray, injection of sclerosing agents (epinephrine, toxiesclerol, ethanolamine).<\/li>\n<li>Argon electrofulguration of vascular lesions of the gastrointestinal tract.<\/li>\n<li>Electrofulguration of Barrett&#8217;s esophagus.<\/li>\n<li>Endoscopic Treatment of Portal Hypertension.<\/li>\n<li>Ligation of esophageal varices.<\/li>\n<li>Placement of a nasojejunal tube for nutrition.<\/li>\n<li>Dilation of gastrointestinal stenoses using hydraulic balloons.<\/li>\n<li>Botulinum toxin injection for achalasia.<\/li>\n<li>Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.<\/li>\n<li>Insertion of a tube for continuous intraduodenal levodopa infusion.<\/li>\n<li>Endoscopic tattoo.<\/li>\n<li>Placement of drain-clearing probes.<\/li>\n<li>Chromoendoscopy with dyes.<\/li>\n<li>Digital chromoendoscopy: I-Scan.<\/li>\n<li>Removal of foreign objects.<\/li>\n<li>Intragastric balloon placement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3067,"parent":0,"template":"","estilo":[],"centros-hcb":[84,46,48],"class_list":["post-10115","especialidades","type-especialidades","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","centros-hcb-hcb-benidorm","centros-hcb-hcb-calpe","centros-hcb-hcb-denia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcbhospitales.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/especialidades\/10115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcbhospitales.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/especialidades"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcbhospitales.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/especialidades"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hcbhospitales.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/especialidades\/10115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31618,"href":"https:\/\/hcbhospitales.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/especialidades\/10115\/revisions\/31618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcbhospitales.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcbhospitales.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"estilo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcbhospitales.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/estilo?post=10115"},{"taxonomy":"centros-hcb","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcbhospitales.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/centros-hcb?post=10115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}