Services
Novant Health Gastroenterology – Brunswick diagnoses, manages and treats common and complex digestive concerns. We make it easy for you to see a provider you can trust without traveling far from where you live or work. When you choose our clinic, you get access to the most advanced diagnostic tools available and a team of clinicians devoted to gastrointestinal concerns.
Conditions we manage and treat include:
- Abdominal pain
- Barrett’s esophagus (a condition in which esophageal damage leads to heartburn, chest pain and other symptoms)
- Cirrhosis (chronic liver damage)
- Colitis (condition in which the colon becomes inflamed)
- Constipation
- Crohn’s disease (an inflammatory bowel disease that causes abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms)
- Diverticulitis (inflammation of the pouches on the wall of the large intestine)
- Gallstones (hardened deposits of bile in the gallbladder)
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Heartburn (acid reflux)
- Inflammatory bowel disease (information of the lining of the digestive tract)
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS; also called spastic colon; a condition that causes stomach pain, gas, diarrhea and constipation)
- Liver disease
- Pancreatic disease
- Rectal bleeding
- Swallowing difficulty
- Ulcers
We offer gastrointestinal procedures including:
- Anorectal manometry (noninvasive procedure to evaluate function of rectal and anal muscles)
- Barrett’s ablation (to remove damaged esophageal cells)
- Bravo pH probe (to evaluate acid reflux)
- Capsule endoscopy (to view the gastrointestinal tract)
- Colonoscopy (for screening or diagnostic purposes)
- Complex lesion removal
- EGD (upper endoscopy; to examine the lining of the esophagus, stomach and first part of the small intestine)
- Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR; to remove abnormal tissue from the gastrointestinal tract)
- Endoscopic ultrasound (in which non-invasive ultrasound technology is used to examine the esophagus, stomach and small intestine)
- ERCP (a procedure involving X-rays and the use of an endoscope tube to examine and address problem in the liver, gallbladder, bile ducts and pancreas)
- Esophageal dilation
- Esophageal manometry (in which a tube is inserted into the esophagus to assess its function)
- Flexible sigmoidoscopy (in which a flexible lighted tube with a camera is used to view the rectum and lower colon)
- Hemorrhoid banding
- Infusion therapy (for Crohn’s disease and colitis)
- Laboratory evaluations
- Liver biopsies
- Luminal Stenting
Some procedures that require a higher level of care are completed at the Novant Health Endoscopy Center in Wilmington. In many cases, a provider from our clinic will care for you there and then complete any needed follow-up care in our office.