Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD)
The very different clinical courses of patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis require a high degree of professional competence and empathy. Thanks to extensive experience with conventional treatment strategies and modern biological therapies, patients can benefit from optimized treatments. In addition, treatments are possible within the framework of clinical studies.
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Help for chronic inflammatory bowel diseases
Due to the close cooperation with the clinics for rheumatology, surgery, dermatology, radiology and nutritional medicine, patients receive comprehensive interdisciplinary care.
In addition to the usual endoscopic examination procedures of the intestine with high-resolution video endoscopes, the following are also available for special questions
- chromoendoscopy (early detection of cancer),
- capsule endoscopy (small intestine diagnostics),
- magnetic resonance imaging of the intestine (fistula imaging, imaging of the small intestine),
- ultrasound of the intestine and
- bone densitometry
are available.
Intestinal diseases: Clinical service profile of the Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology
- Ultrasound diagnostics of the abdomen and in particular of the intestine (standard diagnostics) including contrast sonography
- Rectal endosonography (fistula and abscess diagnosis in perianal Crohn's disease)
- Esophago/gastro/duodenoscopy and colonoscopy (conventional diagnostics of the upper and lower digestive tract)
- Chromoendoscopy of the colon (special screening colonoscopy with vital dyes in cases of long-standing colitis)
- Capsule endoscopy and double balloon enteroscopy (small bowel diagnostics in Crohn's disease in selected cases)
- ERCP (in patients with suspected or confirmed primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)
- Gastroenterological function tests: stool analyses for calprotectin (non-invasive determination of mucosal inflammation), H2 breath tests (diagnosis of e.g. lactose intolerance or bacterial malabsorption), lactose or fructose tolerance