Advanced Therapeutic Services
Jupiter Medical Center’s Frenchman’s Creek Digestive Health
Center offers patients a timely diagnosis of their condition as well as
individualized, ongoing care for the entire continuum of gastrointestinal
disease. We take a team approach focusing on the needs of every patient
and their family. The field of advanced therapeutic endoscopy is a highly
specialized field, requiring expertise and state-of-the-art advanced equipment.
This specialty offers patients safe, minimally invasive alternatives to
manage conditions that previously required more invasive diagnostic techniques
or even surgery.
Our program offers a wide range of advanced interventional endoscopic services,
including:
ERCP
- Management of bile duct stones
- Management of bile duct strictures
- Management of benign and malignant biliary obstruction
- Sphincter of Oddi manometry
- Spyglass cholangioscopy and pancreatoscopy
- Management and evaluation of pancreatic disease (chronic pancreatitis)
Endoscopic Ultrasound
- Evaluation and management of pancreatic cystic lesions
- Staging and diagnosis of gastrointestinal malignancies, including pancreatic,
esophageal, rectal and gastric cancers
- Evaluation of chronic pancreatitis
- Evaluation of gastrointestinal subepithelial lesions
- Management and treatment of pancreatic collections and peri-rectal abscesses
- Advanced
Other Services
- Endoscopic resection of large colonic polyps (EMR)
- Endoscopic therapy for Barrett’s esophagus
- (e.g. HALO/BARRX radiofrequency ablation, endoscopic mucosal resection)
- Small bowel enteroscopy for evaluation and management of small bowel disease
- Endoscopic therapy for achalasia (e.g. botulinum toxin injection, pneumatic dilation)
- Enteral and esophageal stent placement
- Management of complex esophageal strictures
- Stents for esophageal, small bowel, and colon strictures
- Endoscopic management of early stage cancers of the esophagus, stomach,
small bowel and colon
Patient Benefits
Most procedures are performed on an outpatient basis and offer patients
a quicker recovery with fewer complications and improved quality of life.