The Center for Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases at Bangkok Hospital Hat Yai provides comprehensive care, diagnosis, and treatment with a team of specialized physicians and modern equipment, along with extensive medical information.
Symptoms of patients who should seek consultation with a gastroenterologist and hepatologist:
- Abdominal pain
- Painful swallowing, chest tightness, white patches in the mouth
- Difficulty swallowing, food sticking in the chest
- Feeling of a lump in the middle of the throat, feeling a lump when swallowing
- Frequent belching
- Throat irritation, chest discomfort, burning sensation on the tongue
- Frequent burping, regurgitation of partially digested food with sour or bitter taste in the throat
- Nausea, vomiting
- Diarrhea, constipation, bloating, abdominal discomfort, abdominal distension, abdominal cramps, undigested food, enlarged abdomen
- Yellow eyes, yellowish skin
- Hepatitis, vaccination for hepatitis A or B virus
- Endoscopic placement of a nasogastric feeding tube
- Enlarged liver, hard liver, enlarged spleen
- Gastrointestinal cancer, stomach ulcer, liver cancer, bile duct cancer, soft pancreas, intestines
- Screening for gastrointestinal cancer
- Family history of gastrointestinal cancer
- Benign tumors in the intestines
- Polyps in the gallbladder, bile ducts, inflamed gallbladder
- Loss of appetite, weight loss
- Anemia due to iron deficiency
- Peptic ulcer disease
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Accumulation of fat, adhesions, or cysts in the liver
- Ascites, fluid in the abdominal cavity
- Gastrointestinal parasites
- Twisted intestines
- Palpable abdominal masses
- Swallowing foreign objects into the esophagus, stomach foreign body
- Severe diarrhea, fatigue, severe abdominal pain
- Vomiting blood, passing bloody stools, or passing black, foul-smelling stools
- Acid or alkaline ingestion, toilet cleaner ingestion
- Narrowing of the intestines