Center for Digestive Health
If you have indigestion, heartburn, recurring diarrhea, or constipation, you might have a digestive disease. The team at Mount Sinai South Nassau Center for Digestive Health can help. Our experts diagnose and treat pain or discomfort in your mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum, or anus. We treat adults and children.
Our team includes:
- Colorectal, liver, bile duct, and pancreas surgeons
- Dieticians
- Gastroenterologists
- Nurse practitioners
- Pediatric gastroenterologists
If you need a specialist, we can refer you to the right expert.
Conditions We Treat
We have skills and experience in all areas of digestive health. We use the latest approaches and are always doing research to improve the treatment we provide. We can help with:
- Anemia and occult bleeding (blood loss in the digestive tract that is not visible to the patient or physician)
- Barrett’s esophagus and precancerous lesions (such as high-and low-grade dysplasia)
- Bile duct obstruction
- Cancers of the pancreas, esophagus, bile ducts, stomach, and bowel
- Cholecystitis (gallbladder disease)
- Chronic pancreatitis
- Colon polyps and colon cancer
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Gastrointestinal tract obstructions, leaks, fistulas, and perforations
- Pancreatic cysts
- Pancreatic duct strictures and stones
- Strictures (narrowing) in the gastrointestinal tract
- Swallowing disorders, including eosinophilic esophagitis, achalasia, and other disorders of motility (the motion of the food and waste through the body)
- Weight recurrence and weight-loss procedures
Liver Diseases
Our liver specialists (hepatologists) provide compassionate, high-quality care. We can diagnose and treat liver conditions such as:
- Autoimmune liver disease
- Bile duct diseases
- Cirrhosis
- Drug-induced liver injury
- HIV and hepatitis C
- Liver cancer
- Liver enzyme deficiency, including hepatic porphyria
- MASLD/MASH (previously known as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease)
- Viral hepatitis, including hepatitis B and hepatitis C
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a long-term (chronic) condition.
There are two types of IBD: Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. We can treat both, to keep them in remission We can help you avoid symptoms.
Endoscopic Procedures
Endoscopic procedures let us diagnose and treat conditions without major surgery. We use an endoscope, which is a small, flexible tube that we can insert into your body (endoscopy). This way, so we do not need to make big cuts in your chest. You have less discomfort and heal faster. Usually, you can go home the same day. Our endoscopic procedures include:
- Confocal laser endomicroscope, to find and treat early gastrointestinal cancers
- Cryotherapy, or tissue-freezing, which we use to address lesions in the digestive tract
- DNA analysis of tissue samples (also called fluorescent in situ hybridization, or FISH) to look at abnormal narrowing of the bile duct
- Endoscopic gallbladder drainage, to treat acute and chronic cholecystitis
- Endoscopic internal bypass, which helps us bypass obstructions due to cancer
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography studies to check the gallbladder, pancreas, and bile ducts
- Endoscopic submucosal dissection and endoscopic mucosal resection to treat Barrett’s esophagus and early gastrointestinal cancers
- Endoscopic suturing, to close wounds and repair tissue
- Endoscopic ultrasound to examine the walls and the surrounding structures of the gastrointestinal system. We can also measure the size and depth of any abnormal growth.
- Gastroscopy, to look at the esophagus and stomach
- Liver biopsy, which involves taking a little tissue from the liver to look at in the lab-not sure to include this
- Spyglass visualization system to view the pancreas and bile ducts precisely
- Radiofrequency ablation, which uses thermal energy to destroy cancerous and precancerous tissue. We use this to treat Barrett’s esophagus, bile duct tumors, pancreatic cysts, and radiation proctitis.
- Stretta and transoral incisionless fundoplication, which helps treat gastroesophageal reflux disease