Patient Care
Pediatric gastroenterologists at UCSF Children's Hospital diagnose and
manage digestive, nutritional, and liver disorders in infants, children,
and teens to 21 years old. They treat a wide range of conditions including
malabsorption syndromes such as celiac disease and cystic fibrosis, feeding
problems and swallowing disorders, functional gastrointestinal disorders,
gastroesophageal reflux, diarrheal disorders, motility disorders, acute
and chronic inflammatory bowel disease including Crohn's disease and ulcerative
colitis, acute and chronic hepatitis, inherited metabolic and immunological
defects, liver failure requiring artificial liver support or liver transplant,
and short bowel syndrome and intestinal failure often needing parenteral
(intravenous) or enteral (tube) feedings and sometimes requiring small
intestinal transplant.
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