Pediatric Gastroenterology
What does this specialty do?
The Pediatric Gastroenterology service offers compassionate, comprehensive, and highly complex care for diseases affecting the digestive system, liver, and nutritional status in infants, children, and adolescents. It treats both common and rare diseases, including inborn errors of metabolism, providing close support to families and technological assistance for diagnosis and treatment from early childhood through adolescence.
Diseases it treats
Gastrointestinal tract
- Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis)
- Irritable bowel syndrome and functional disorders
- Gastroesophageal reflux and esophagitis
- Food allergies (CMPA, IgE and non-IgE)
- Intestinal malabsorption (celiac disease, lactase deficiency, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency)
Liver and bile ducts
- Intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC, transient neonatal cholestasis)
- Viral hepatitis and autoimmune hepatitis
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD/NASH)
- Liver fibrosis and cirrhosis
- Biliary atresia and congenital malformations of the biliary tract
- Pediatric liver transplantation (pre- and post-management)
Pancreas
- Acute and chronic pancreatitis
- Cystic fibrosis associated with pancreatic insufficiency
- Pancreatic and congenital cysts
Nutrition and metabolism
- Malnutrition and stunted growth
- Childhood obesity and overweight
- Vitamin and mineral deficiencies (vitamin D, iron, calcium, zinc)
- Inborn errors of metabolism
Genetic and rare diseases
- Lysosomal storage diseases with digestive and hepatic involvement
- Alagille syndrome
- Mitochondrial diseases with digestive or hepatic manifestations
Procedures and treatments
- Outpatient consultation and teleconsultation
- Hospitalization in pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology
- Evaluation and follow-up before and after liver transplantation
- upper digestive endoscopy
- Colonoscopy
- Percutaneous gastrostomy
- Esophageal dilatations
- Polyp resection
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Enteroscopy and capsule endoscopy
- Varicose vein ligation and sclerotherapy
- Digestive physiology:
- Anorectal manometry
- Esophageal manometry
- pH-impedance measurement
Subspecialties
- General pediatric gastroenterology
- Pediatric hepatology (unique in southwestern Colombia)
- Pediatric liver transplantation (pioneering service in Colombia)
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Contact
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