Healing for specific stomach disorders
Our specialist visceral ward handles the diagnosis and treatment of patients with abdominal complaints.
The best and quickest method of treatment is determined during interdisciplinary rounds and case discussions. For instance, with an acute biliary (gall bladder) disorder, the degree of inflammation and the location of the gallstones is determined by non-invasive ultrasound. The stones are then endoscopically removed by direct endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). Subsequently the gallbladder is often removed through minimally invasive surgery.
In most cases, a conservative treatment of chronic inflammatory bowel disease is possible with highly effective medication. In some cases there may be complications which should then be treated endoscopically (accessible stenoses) or surgically (fistulae, abscesses, inaccessible stenoses) – using minimally invasive procedures wherever possible.
Cooperation with various cancer centres
Gastrointestinal cancers and their precursor stages are common and require a precise diagnosis and specifically matched therapy. In this way, benign lesions in all areas of the gastrointestinal tract can be treated endoscopically. Superficial malignant tumours can be thoroughly treated. Advanced conditions are surgically treated with primary or secondary surgery, following chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Each treatment is determined on a case-by-case basis by an interdisciplinary tumour board at the University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein Campus Lübeck. After major invasive surgery, the patient is monitored and treated postoperatively in our interdisciplinary intensive care unit. Oncological follow-up can be performed here at the hospital if necessary.
