The modern way of living leads to more frequent health disorders that stem from the digestive tract. Poor eating habits, reduced physical activity, as well as sitting for many hours often make us feel tired and bloated with indefinite pain in the stomach. The stomach pain isn’t a necessarily worrying symptom, but it should be further analyzed. “Atlas” General Hospital provides a rounded diagnostical system and adequate modalities of treatment. Our gastroenterologists conduct complete advanced diagnostics that include abdomen ultrasounds, endoscopic procedures (colonoscopy, esophagogastroduodenoscopy) as well as functional and biochemical examinations of the function of the digestive tract.
Our surgical team is made up of leading experts in colo-rectal surgery and proctology which is a prerequisite for the patient to achieve a better quality of life. Surgical diseases of the digestive tract can be of a benign or malign nature. Benign diseases that are most common stem from complications of inflammatory colon diseases such as colitis or Crohn’s disease. Inflammatory diseases require a multidisciplinary approach and teamwork of gastroenterologists and surgeons. In case of complications after medical treatment, such as forming of a fistula or stenosis, a surgical approach might be necessary. With this treatment, it is of utmost importance that an experienced surgeon preserves the largest segment possible of the digestive tract.
When speaking of malignant changes in the digestive tract, the modern oncological center that we work in provides the patient with complete diagnostic/therapeutic support that uses an individual approach. The patient should start with a detailed endoscopic examination (colonoscopy) that identifies the place of the tumor growth and enables a biopsy of the growth which may confirm the possibility of a malignant disease after a microscopic pathohistologial analysis. After receiving the PH results, the diagnostics are continued with an ultrasound, scanner, or MRI. These imaging methods are needed to evaluate the local progress of the tumor growth as well as the eventual dissemination (metastasis) of the prime disease inside the abdominal cavity or lung parenchyma.
After finishing the examinations, the diagnostic results are presented to the internal medical advisory board which decides on an immediate operative treatment or if the patient can be previously subjected to a preoperative oncological treatment. These decisions are made solely based on the newest world protocols on the treatment of malign diseases of the colon and rectum. The surgery itself must be performed to achieve an adequate oncological effect which includes removing the tumor and the blood vessels from exactly defined places to remove the potential malignant cells that are not visible to the eye. When removing the tumor, it is of extreme importance to reconstruct the digestive tract safely and to preserve the function of the digestive tract. With low-placed tumors of the rectum, it is especially important to preserve the sphincter, which can be quite challenging for the surgeon.
Keeping everything that has previously been mentioned in mind, it is necessary to put your health in the hands of surgeons that are sovereign and experienced in treating colon and rectum diseases. “Atlas” General Hospital is proud of its team of experts that have performed over 5000 previously mentioned surgeries in their careers with statistical results that are comparable to any world colorectal surgery center.
