Gastroenterology

The GI Division specializes in providing treatment and diagnosis to patients with gastrointestinal disorders and liver diseases; including patients with non-cardiac chest pain, peptic ulcer disease, diarrhea, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), disorders of the pancreas, and chronic liver disease. Our staff physicians work closely with our transplant surgeons to provide the best level of care to evaluate and treat patients for liver transplant.

Other areas of speciality and service include: 

• esophageal motility and 24-hour pH monitoring
• gastrointestinal endoscopy, including transduodenal bile duct and pancreatic duct cannulation, and endoscopic ultrasound. 
• endoscopic papillotomy with removal of retained common bile duct stones, colonoscopy and colonoscopic polypectomy
• Malabsorption disorders, nutritional disorders, weight loss, sexually transmitted intestinal and liver disease, parasitic infections and chronic secretory diarrhea
• chronic liver disease such as viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, gallstones, primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) and primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC)

At Tufts Medical Center our staff physicians have pioneered innovative medical treatment for primary biliary cirrhosis

(PBC) and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC).  Medical therapies, introduced in the treatment of chronic cholestatic liver diseases, appear to induce remission in some patients with previously untreatable disease.