Divison of Gastroenterology

Warren Bishop, MD, Director

The division provides comprehensive outpatient and inpatient consultation and care for children with gastrointestinal and liver disorders.

Clinical Services
Evaluation and treatment of:

  • Abdominal pain
  • Celiac disease (sprue)
  • Crohn's disease
  • Congenital bowel dysfunction
  • Congenital liver disorders
  • Constipation/Encopresis (soiling)
  • Diarrhea
  • Feeding, growth, and nutritional problems
  • Gastrointestinal bleeding
  • Gastroesophageal reflux
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Hepatitis
  • Pancreatitis
  • Acid peptic disease
  • Ulcerative colitis
  • Vomiting

Gastroenterology Group

Appointments and questions:
M-F, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
319-356-2229
Patient Self Referrals

Emergencies, evenings, and weekends:
319-356-1616

Other services:
  • Feeding tube placement (gastrostomy or jejunostomy)
  • Foreign body retrieval from esophagus and stomach
  • Endoscopic treatment of strictures of the esophagus
  • Endoscopic therapy of achalasia
  • Diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal hemorrhage (bleeding)
  • Nutritional support

Diagnostic Services
Evaluation and consultation

  • Breath hydrogen analysis
  • Liver biopsy
  • Rectal suction biopsy for Hirschprung's disease

Gastroenterology Exam

  • Diagnostic endoscopy of upper and lower bowel:
    • Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
    • Colonoscopy
    • Flexible sigmoidoscopy
    • Capsule small bowel endoscopy
  • Manometric studies for motility disorders
    • Anorectal manometry for Hirschprung's disease
    • Antroduodenal motility study
    • Colonic motility study
  • Esophageal pH probe analysis for gastroesophageal reflux

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