Gastroscopy can detect inflammation, polyps, ulcers, tumors, bleeding, and other digestive system pathologies in the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum. If you have a history of reflux esophagitis, gastric ulcer, atrophic gastritis, duodenal ulcer, etc., you should undergo gastroscopy regularly, so you should hang up with the Department of Gastroenterology for gastroscopy.
1. Indications for gastroscopy
(1) Difficulty in swallowing, retrosternal pain, epigastric pain, discomfort, fullness, loss of appetite and other upper gastrointestinal symptoms of unknown cause;
(2) Unexplained upper gastrointestinal bleeding;
(3) Upper gastrointestinal tract lesions that cannot be diagnosed or explained by barium x-ray examination, especially mucosal lesions and suspected tumors;
(4) Lesions requiring follow-up observation, such as peptic ulcer, atrophic gastritis, post gastric surgery, reflux esophagitis, Barrett’s esophagus and so on;
(5) Comparative observation before and after drug treatment or follow-up after surgery;
(6) Endoscopic treatment, such as foreign body removal and hemostasis, sclerosing agent injection and lancing of esophagogastric fundal varices, dilatation and stenting of esophageal stenosis, upper gastrointestinal polypectomy, mucosal resection and so on.
2. Contraindications to gastroscopy: those with a history of hypertension, coronary heart disease, asthma, spinal deformity, etc. are forbidden to do gastroscopy.