Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology
Clinical Services
The Gastroenterology Unit provides a state-wide service in gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition for infants, children and adolescents under 18 years of age. The services extend to the Northern Territory, Western NSW and Western Victoria.
Services Include
- Inpatient specialist care and consultation
- Outpatient clinics in paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, nutrition, eating disorders and cystic fibrosis
- Outreach specialist outpatient clinics to: Flinders Medical Hospital, Lyall McEwin Hospital, Mount Gambier Hospital, Whyalla Hospital and Port Augusta Hospital.
- Home Enteral Nutrition Service (HENS)
- Home Parenteral Nutrition Service
- Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures: Endoscopy and colonoscopy. Liver biopsy
How to access the service
A referral is needed from a medical practitioner.
Referral letters should contain
- full name
- date of birth
- address
- telephone number
- whether or not your child will be treated as a public or private patient
- parent/carer's names
- Medicare number
- emergency contact (if required)
The referral may faxed to (08) 8161 6088 or sent by mail.Once the referral
has been received the Unit Secretary will advise you of the appointment time
either by telephone or by letter.
Laboratory Diagnostic and Investigational Services
- Upper gastrointestinal motility studies
- 24 hour ambulatory pH monitoring for gastro-oesophageal reflux,
- Oesophageal impedance testing for gastro-oesophageal reflux and symptoms
- breath hydrogen testing for carbohydrate absorption and malabsorption, orocaecal transit time and bacterial overgrowth of the inestine.
- Stable isotope breath testing for Helicobacter pylori, sucrose, gastric emptying, small bowel bacterial overgrowth, fat malabsorption
- Intestinal permeability testing using dual sugar probes.
Research activity
- Motility research of upper gastrointestinal tract looking at developmental
physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacotherapy.
- Non-invasive modalities to study gut function pathophysiology and interventions
using both animal models and studies in humans in both health and disease
areas including Helicobacter pylori, gastric emptying, gut mucosal injury
of varying aetiologies and small bowel bacterial overgrowth.
- Zinc stable isotope studies in animal models and humans in health and disease.
- Novel therapies for prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases
including pre and probiotics and hyperimmune bovine colostrum.
- Centre for the Australian Paediatric and Adolescent inflammatory bowel disease
database. This is also being used for research studies.
Hours
General Business 9am - 5pm
Contact Information
Detailed Staff Listing
Medical Unit Head
Dr David Moore
Location
- 8th Floor, Rieger Building
Mailing Address
- Gastroenterology Department
- Children, Youth and Women's Health Service
- 72 King William Road
- North Adelaide
- South Australia 5006
Phone/Fax/Email
Ph (08) 8161 7352
Fax (08) 8161 6088
Email Gastroenterology Department Secretary
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