Tests and treatments

In order to reach a diagnosis for digestive and liver problems, a thorough and accurate medical history must be taken by the physician, noting the symptoms your child has experienced and any other pertinent information. A physical examination is also done to help assess the problem more completely.

Some patients need to undergo a more extensive diagnostic evaluation, which may include laboratory tests, imaging tests or endoscopic procedures.

• 24 hour pH impedance probe test
• Abdominal computed tomography scan
• Anal dilatation
• Auricular neurostimulation
• Bariatric weight loss surgery
• Barium swallow study
• Biopsy
• Blood tests
• Capsule endoscopy 
• Cecostomy
• Colostomy
• Colonoscopy
• Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
• Endoscopy
• Enteral nutrition
• Esophageal dilation
• Esophageal pH monitoring
• Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
• Feeding disorders typical treatment path
• Feeding tube training
• Fiber optic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing
• Gastric emptying study
• Gastrostomy
• Ileostomy
• Infusion
• Inpatient behavioral feeding
• Lower GI series 
• Magnetic resonance enterography
• Magnetic resonance imaging
• Manometry studies
• Pancreatic stimulation
• Sacral Neuromodulation
• Sitzmark colon transit test
• Stool test
• Transnasal endoscopy
• Upper GI series
• Videoflouroscopic swallow study