What is gastroenterology?
Gastroenterology is a special branch of medicine, which treats the illnesses of the digestive system (esophagus, stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas, gall bladder).
Where can the doctor’s office be found?
The office can be found in District II of Budapest, at 5/B Margit körút (2nd floor, door 1). Please push button 6 (marked ‘gastroenterologia’) at the doorbell. You can find a map under the Contact menu.
How can I get to the surgery?
The surgery is easy to get to by both car and public transport. You can find further information under the Contact menu.
How can I make an appointment?
You can find detailed information under the Contact menu.
What should I take with me to the examination?
Do bring all your diagnostic reports with you and write down the names of all medications you take on a regular basis.
Do I need a referral to be examined?
No, screening and necessary treatments are given after check-in.
Do I need my TAJ card?
Yes, you’ll need it to have any medications prescribed. Because this way you’ll only be paying what you would have done if you’d had your medications prescribed at a state clinic or hospital.
How do I pay?
Prices can be seen in advance at reception. Your doctor will describe the examinations you’d received, which are then priced at reception. Patients pay in cash at reception and are given a receipt.
Are the medications prescribed subsidised here too?
Yes, to the same extent as they are at state surgeries.
What is the surgery’s relationship with health funds?
We are connected with all health funds, and supply them with a receipt.
What does diarrhea mean?
What questions should I expect to be asked at the surgery?
What could be the cause of my diarrhea?
How is diarrhoea examined?
What does bloating mean?
Feeling full, expanded abdomen, increased gas production, occasionally accompanied by pain, loss of appetite, abdominal cramps
What questions should I expect to be asked at the surgery when I have a bloating problem?
What could be the cause of my bloating?
How is bloating examined?
What questions should I expect to be asked at the surgery when I have a constipation problem?
What could be the cause of my constipation?
How is constipation examined?
The bacterium Helicobacter Pylori is a spiral-shaped micro-organism that infects the stomach in humans and causes a local infection. The infection affects at least 50% of the world population.
Recognition of the role the bacterium Helicobacter Pylori (H. P.) plays in diseases is vital from the point of view of prevention and cure. The infection can be linked to chronic gastric flu, stomach and small intestine ulcers, and cancers that originate in the glands and lymphatic elements of the stomach wall. The elimination of the pathogen opens the way for prevention and cure of these diseases.
Stomach cancer is the second most common type of cancer – after cancer of the colon – of the digestive system in the world. In Hungary, it accounts for around 7.5% of all deaths from cancer, about 2-3 thousand people a year.
Which factors contribute to an increased risk of stomach cancer?
Patients who have suffered infections caused by Helicobacter pylori are twice as likely to be affected. This risk factor increases in direct proportion to how early the patient suffered from the infection, also with the virulence of the pathogen. The bacteria infects the body via food and drink contaminated with feces. In developing counties where a high percentage of children are infected with H.p., incidents of stomach cancer are six times more frequent. In developed countries, 1 per cent of carriers of the bacterium develop the malignant disease, H.p. Infection raises the risk to 3.5 of those who are unaffected. 90 % of malignant tumours of the stomach originates in the glands (adenocarcinoma). The second most frequent (3 per cent) is lymphoma, which originates from lymphatic elements. Helicobacter infections contribute to both.
Apart from Helicobacter infections, other factors such as smoked foods, smoking, drinking water high in nitrates, vitamin deficiency, hereditary factors, history of stomach operations can also contribute to the onset of stomach cancers. A diet rich in vitamin C and carotinoids (rich in fruit and vegetables) affords protection against the disease.
What are the symptoms of stomach cancer?
Recognising early stage stomach cancer is exceedingly difficult. Often, patients are free from symptoms, or are unsure whether they have any, and do not pay much attention to them. Most often they feel a dull abdominal pain, nausea, change in food preferences, repulsion towards meat, lack of appetite, feeling full, weight loss, but these symptoms accompany a plethora of other diseases too.
How can stomach cancer be diagnosed?
Diagnosis of stomach cancer is done through gastroscopy, when biopsy samples are taken for analysis. Apart from this, ancillary examinations (abdominal ultrasound, CT, chest X-rays) are needed to establish whether the cancer has spread further along the abdominal wall and its surrounding area.
Prevention and cure
Depending on the size, position, dimensions and whether metastasis is present, surgical and chemotherapy are employed. If the cancer has not broken through the stomach wall, or produced metastasis, prospects of recovery are very high, over 90 per cent of patients are still alive 5 years after surgery. Unfortunately, in most instances, the disease is detected in its more advanced stages, which makes chances of survival much lower. Recognising the contributing role of a Helicobacter pylori infection enables us to diminish one of the risk factors of stomach cancer, and help us prevent it.
Do I need to prepare for the examination?
You do need to prepare for most of our examinations, which translates into stricter or laxer diets. See a detailed guide under the screening menu
What is the examination procedure?
You can find detailed information about the examinations under Examinations.
Is the examination painful?
We aim to conduct our examination causing the least possible pain and discomfort. Despite this you may feel some pain. If required, we administer an anaesthetic/barbiturate injection, which reduces discomfort to a minimum. You can find more information on the possibility of pain during each of our examinations under the screening menu.
Do the interventions carry a risk of complications?
Like all medical interventions, ours carry risks too. However, with our equipment and personnel we do our utmost to reduce these to a minimum. If a problem still arose, we are fully equipped to contain it. To find out in detail about possible complications, see the examination menu:
How long does an examination take?
With your cooperation, examinations can be conducted quickly. The time necessary to complete an examination may vary according to circumstances.
Is the examination an in- or outpatient procedure?
Our examinations are outpatient procedures, however, in certain cases, such as after an endoscopy examination or being given tranquillisers, or when the procedure was done under a general aesthetic, you need to remain in the surgery for a few hours.
Is it worth attending a screening even when I’m symptom-free?
Tumours in the stomach, large intestine and anus are on the rise, particularly among the young. They are extremely dangerous, as they are barely detectable in their early stages, symptoms are mild, and are often ignored. Because of this, if you detect any change in the quality of your stools, have had a polyp, members of your family have suffered from cancer, it is worth your while attending a screening even if you have no symptoms.