Our Dear Patients
Endoscopy has become a more widely accepted and diagnostic procedure in recent years. However, there are still significant number of patients that have a lot of questions on the uses and value of endoscopy and on certain issues on digestive diseases in general. Furthermore, a lot of patients do not have the chance to take advantage of such valuable procedures. With this in mind, the Society wishes to help the community by providing information that will answer the concerns and derail some of the misconceptions that the public have. In addition to the knowledge you can gain from this website, we plan to conduct lay forums in several areas around the country to lecture on common gastrointestinal diseases and other endoscopy-related topics.
Extending medical services to our financially-challenged countrymen is one of the major goals of the Society. For accessibility to endoscopic procedures of those patients in far-flung areas of the country, endoscopy wet clinics are being offered to selected remote regions. Patients with gastrointestinal diseases that will require complicated endoscopic procedures were given aid during our yearly Live Endoscopy Workshops where local and foreign experts collaborate and try to resolve or improve their health condition. At the same time, this is also a good chance to teach young endoscopists new and advanced techniques. (We will also try to render wet clinics in Metro Manila for those that are in need of these procedures if logistics permits.)
Lastly, if you need a competent gastroenterologist, you can select from the list of members of the Society provided by this website. You can also interact with us by sending your questions and comments through our online contact form or through our telephone numbers which are listed at the bottom part area of the website.
We welcome you to the PSDE website, and please keep yourself posted to the different activities of the Society. MABUHAY!
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What is Dyspepsia? (click here to read more)
- Dyspepsia is a term used to describe a constellation of symptoms arising from the upper abdomen.
- Dyspepsia is quite common in adults and may be chronic and recurrent often leading to medical consult.
- It is a subjective feeling most often described by patients as “upper abdominal discomfort”, “pain”, aching”, “bloatedness”, “fullness”, “burning” or “indigestion”.
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A peptic ulcer is a sore in the lining of your stomach or duodenum. The duodenum is the first part of your small intestine. A peptic ulcer in the stomach is called a gastric ulcer. One that is in the duodenum is called a duodenal ulcer. A peptic ulcer also may develop just above your stomach in the esophagus, the tube that connects the mouth to the stomach. But most peptic ulcers develop in the stomach or duodenum.
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Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, with 700 000 deaths annually. In Asia Pacific (AP) region, it remains a major health burden. Gastric cancer rate is twice as more common in men than in women.
Adenocarcinoma of the stomach constitutes 90-95% of all gastric malignancies. When diagnosed at an early stage, 5-year survival rates for gastric cancer exceed 90%. However, when diagnosed at an advanced stage, 5-year survival rates may be only in the range of 10-20%.
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- is a diagnostic endoscopic procedure that visualizes the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract up to the duodenum.
- is done using a narrow, flexible, telescopic cam era called a gastroscope.
- It is considered a minimally invasive procedure since it does not require an incision into one of the major body cavities and does not require any significant recovery after the procedure (unless sedation or anaesthesia has been used).
- may be abbreviated EGD
- It is also called upper GI endoscopy (UGIE), gastroscopy or simply endoscopy
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Colorectal (large intestine) cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the inner lining of the colon or rectum. Colon and rectum is the last part of your digestive sy stem, whose mainrole is for absoprtion of water and nutrients. The large intestine is about 120 cm in length and the last 6 inches of which is the rectum