Dr. Johny Cyriac
HOD- Senior Consultant- Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology
Overview & Features
The Lisie has its foundation on unshakeable social commitment and is striving to take its great work further by transforming specialities into super-specialities, making the new advancements in medical field reachable for everyone. The centre of gastroenterology which started functioning here two years back was thus a firm step ahead in that direction.
Now, to cater to the growing demand, we are into an expansion phase with addition of more space, equipment, personnel and expertise. And the much awaited division of gastrointestinal surgery was commenced in mid- February, 2016 with a highly specialized GI surgeon joining our department.
With skilled personnel, dedicated team, sophisticated equipment and service oriented management policies, the Lisie centre of gastrointestinal and liver diseases endeavour to fill the great void between the big corporate centers and the government hospitals.
With two senior consultants on board, the unit focuses on individualized care of patients. We make use of the fact that all specialities are available at Lisie including oncology, radiology and cardiology and we team up with them for multidisciplinary care as per patients’ needs. The department has state-of-the-art
Diseases/Conditions & Treatments
- Our moto is treatment individualized for each patient
- Equipped to manage all gastrointestinal disease conditions, be it functional bowel disorder like IBS, chronic inflammatory conditions like Ulcerative colitis and Chrohn’s disease or various Malignancies of GIT
- We evaluate and treat all sorts of liver diseases including various types of jaundice, Cirrhosis of liver, liver failure and cancer of liver and biliary tree
- Gall bladder diseases including stones and infections and endoscopic removal of bile duct stones
- Endoscopic management of GI bleeding; variceal bleed in Cirrhosis, Ulcer bleed and Colonic bleed of various sources
- Various pancreatic disease conditions; acute and chronic
- Integrated treatment strategy combining medical, endoscopic, radiological and surgical modalities according to the individual needs of each patient
- We make use of the fact that all medical and surgical specialities are available at our centre and pass the benefit to the patient in the form of multidisciplinary care
Treatments
- Diagnostic and therapeutic Ultrasonography
- Ultrasound guided procedures including FNA, Cyst aspiration and Liver abscess drainage
- Liver Biopsy
- Percutaneous Cholecystostomy
- Diagnostic and therapeutic upper GI endoscopy (OGD)
- Haemostatic procedures including variceal banding (EVL), scleotherapy, Cyanoacrylate Glue injection, Hemoclip application, Hemospray and injection therapy
- Diagnostic and therapeutic Colonoscopy
- Polypectomy procedures
- Endoloop application for big polyps
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
- Stricture dilatations-esophageal, enteric, colonic and biliary
- Endoscopic Stenting (SEMS placement) in various strictures and cancers
- Achalasia Dilatation with Pneumatic balloon
- PEG (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy) placement
- Foreign body removal
- Diagnostic and therapeutic ERCP
- ERCP-biliary stone removal
- ERCP- biliary stricture dilatations and stent placement
- ERCP- pancreatic stone removal and stenting
- Diagnostic and therapeutic EUS
- EUS guided FNA
- EUS guided endoscopic cystogastrostomy for large pancreatic cysts
- EUS guided aspiration of pelvic collections
Facilities Available:(Rooms,Technology, ICUs)
Sevices and Facilities
- 24 hours GI emergency services
- Daily OPDs, morning and evening
- Suite with 2 endoscopy rooms and high end equipment
- Integrated 8 bedded ICU within the suite; thus the need of uncomfortable and often repeated shifting of patients to endoscopy and back is avoided
- State-of-the-art fluoroscopy room for ERCP and other Radiology assisted procedures
- Pre and post procedure monitoring areas
- Preparation rooms in endoscopy suite
- Olympus 190 series high resolution endoscopic systems with image enhancing technology
- The fluoroscopy suite is equipped with Siemens…..
- Trans-abdominal ultrasound system (GE..)
Timeline
2012- Department started
November 2014- Department expanded and shifted to new floor with modern endoscopy suite and sonology room
August 2015- Started ERCP with dedicated fluoroscopy machine
February 2016- Started gastroenterology ICU integrated with endoscopy suite
November 2017- Started EUS, both diagnostic and therapeutic
Meet Our Doctors
Dr. Johny Cyriac
HOD- Senior Consultant
Dr.Thomas James
NA
Dr. Anooja Vijay P
Junior Consultant
Dr. Jerin Francis
Jr. Doctor