What symptoms need to do gastroscopy? Who needs to do gastroscopy? What aspects will gastroscopy involve? Let's take a look at these problems.
1、 Epigastric pain
A variety of diseases can cause epigastric pain, including mild and severe. Serious illness may threaten the patient's life. And all kinds of pain management methods are not the same, so the first thing is to find out what the patient is suffering from. People over 50 should pay more attention to it.
2、 Unexplained loss of appetite and weight loss
Severe stomach disease is often the cause of loss of appetite and weight loss.
3、 Hematemesis
Hematemesis patient, vomit is bright red or dark red blood, sometimes patient performance for stool color black, for tar shape.
4、 Dysphagia or eating obstruction
Dysphagia or a sense of obstruction when eating indicates that the normal food passage is blocked at the entrance of esophagus or gastric cardia, which is a serious situation. At this time, don't be careless and don't miss the opportunity of treatment.
5、 Upper abdominal mass
Through gastroscopy, we can find out the location of the mass and whether the mass is benign or malignant.
6、 Atrophic gastritis has been diagnosed
Atrophic gastritis and gastric cancer have a certain connection, so we should give patients with atrophic gastritis regular gastroscopy review (that is, follow-up), can early detect malignant lesions, for early treatment to buy time. At present, no special examination can replace the special function of gastroscope.
7、 Patients with peptic ulcer
Patients who have been diagnosed with ulcer disease can understand the ulcer situation through gastroscopy, especially after medication. Whether it is completely cured depends on gastroscopy, because only when it is completely cured can the recurrence and other complications be avoided.
8、 Gastric and duodenal polyps
Polyps have a certain rate of canceration. For patients who have been diagnosed as gastric (duodenal) polyps, gastroscopy can be used to treat them thoroughly. Without surgery, the patients have no pain.
9、 After gastric surgery
No matter what the reason is, patients who have undergone gastric surgery (gastrectomy or partial gastrectomy) in the past are prone to cancer. The longer the operation time, the greater the risk. Now people over 50 are also at risk. The only reliable examination method is careful and comprehensive gastroscopy, and take living tissue from the stomach for examination.
10、 Patients with acid regurgitation and heartburn
There are acid reflux, heartburn and other symptoms, suggesting that gastric juice reflux into the esophagus, and stimulate and damage the esophagus (known as' gastroesophageal reflux disease '). Gastroscopy can identify the degree and scope of the lesions, so as to choose effective treatment and avoid the complications such as bleeding and stenosis.
11、 Metastatic cancer found in other parts of the body
Metastatic cancer is found in other parts of the body, and gastric cancer is often the primary lesion. Through examination, we can find out whether the primary lesion is gastric cancer, which is helpful to formulate a reasonable treatment plan.
12、 Foreign body swallowing into esophagus or stomach
Foreign objects include buttons, pins, rings, bamboo sticks, coins, keys, etc. If these things are swallowed into the stomach, they can be disposed of through gastroscope, which avoids the pain of operation.
13、 Routine physical examination
In routine physical examination, if there is a family history of gastric cancer, or in areas with high incidence of gastric cancer and esophageal cancer, gastroscopy should be considered.
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