Gastroenterology
About
The Gastroenterology Service of Hospital da Ordem Terceira do Chiado has the mission of transmitting, disseminating, and applying knowledge in providing services and guiding the community, aiming at timely preventing and treating digestive tract diseases.
We have adapted to the new concepts of health, and allied tradition to renewal.
Our modern facilities are in excellent condition to welcome you, both as an outpatient and as an inpatient. We ensure a specialised and customised technical treatment, together with a strong human component.
Our endoscopic techniques service runs from Monday through Friday, morning and afternoon, as well as Saturday morning.
Areas of intervention
Service activities
- Gastroenterology Appointments
- Proctology Appointments
- Hepatology Appointments
Supplemental diagnostic and therapeutic tests
- Upper gastrointestinal video-endoscopies – with or without anaesthesia
- Video colonoscopies – with or without anaesthesia
- Flexible rectosigmoidoscopies
- Endoscopic polypectomies (upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and colonoscopy)
- Argon Plasma Treatments
- Esophageal Dilation
- Intragastric Balloon Placement / Extraction (BIB)
- H. pylori Ag. detection in faeces
- Respiratory tests for H. pylori
In order to respond to the new challenges of medical-surgical Gastroenterology, our service also provides ultrasounds and directed biopsies, diagnostic and therapeutic laparoscopies.