Centre for Gastrointestinal Medicine and Nutritional Medicine
The gastrointestinal tract includes the various sections of the digestive tract, i.e. the oesophagus, the stomach, as well as the small and large intestines, but also the associated organs of the liver, bile ducts and pancreas. Just like breathing or the heartbeat, food intake and digestion are among the vital bodily functions. Numerous organic and functional disorders are possible.
Endoscopic diagnostic procedures using gastroscopy and colonoscopy, which are also used for stomach and bowel cancer screening, are of central importance in the clarification of diseases. If these examination techniques do not reveal any abnormalities in the "gastrointestinal doctor", the symptoms mentioned could be caused by functional disorders such as food intolerances, pancreatic weakness or bacterial overgrowth. Our competent gastroenterology team will obtain an exact picture of your individual constellation and will arrange for the diagnosis and therapy tailored to your particular case based on the latest scientific findings.
Numerous gastrointestinal symptoms can be remedied by targeted nutritional counselling by our competent nutritionists. Interdisciplinary cooperation is also often indispensable, e.g. when today's widespread diseases such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, elevated blood lipid levels or a fatty liver provide for a greatly increased cardiovascular risk profile. In such cases, a professionally supported weight reduction is often the decisive therapeutic step. However, there are also connections that are often not immediately obvious. One example is the rheumatic disease gout. The decisive factor here is adherence to a diet low in uric acid and only in addition the introduction of a uric acid-lowering medication. This illustrates why all departments of the MEDIZINICUM Hamburg cooperate with our gastrointestinal focus in terms of interdisciplinary cooperation.
