Advanced Endoscopy/Pancreatic and Biliary Services

• Barrett's Esophagus
• Esophageal / UGI tract / anastomotic / colonic strictures (benign, malignant, and refractory)
• GI tract fistulas, leaks, and perforations
• GI tract neoplasms: advanced diagnostics / detection / staging / local therapy
• Gastric and esophagogastric varices
• Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE)
• Small bowel and obscure GI bleeding
• Bile duct stones (choledocholithiasis)
• Biliary tract strictures: benign / post-operative / malignant / indeterminate
• Bile leak
• Pancreatic cysts
• Acute, recurrent, and chronic pancreatitis
• Pancreatic and biliary tract cancers

• Minimally invasive ultrasound: tumor detection, staging and tissue sampling
• Advanced invasive ultrasound: celiac block-neurolysis, pseudocyst drainage and necrosectomy, fiducial placement, biliary or pancreatic duct drainage, liver biopsy and gastric varices obliteration
• Minimally invasive bile duct and pacreas treatment: includes ductoscopy, intraductal lithotripsy, endomicroscopy, and altered anatomy procedures
• Single-session EUS / ERCP
• Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) and Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD)
• Endoscopic ablation: luminal and biliary
• Endomicroscopy: luminal tract, biliary and pancreas cyst
• Stent placement: luminal tract, pancreatic and biliary
• Endoscopic suturing and clipping
• Device-assisted enteroscopy

Your liver, bile ducts, pancreas and gallbladder produce, release and manage bile and other hormones that help with digestion. When pancreatic cancer, gastrointestinal tears or other issues occur, turn to Ochsner. Ochsner's pancreatic and biliary services team offers comprehensive diagnosis and treatment for conditions that impact your pancreas, gallbladder or biliary ducts.

Ochsner's advanced pancreatic and biliary endoscopy technology allows our doctors to use tiny cameras and minimally invasive techniques to evaluate the pancreas and bile ducts for abnormalities, including tumors, blockages, pancreatic cysts and more. In many cases, our doctors can use these minimally invasive endoscopic tools to close leaks, perform biopsies, place stents, remove stones and more, all without the need for major surgery.

Contact information:

• Fax: 504-842-0409
• Email: advancedendscopy@ochsner.org
• OchsnerOutcomes: Digestive Diseases
• Email: advancedendoscopy@ochsner.org