Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

The Baylor Medicine Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center offers comprehensive, state-of-the-art care for patients with newly diagnosed and refractory inflammatory bowel disease. This includes:

• Highly trained specialists in the management of IBD, including gastroenterologists, pathologists, nutritionists, radiologists, psychologists and surgeons.
• State-of-the-art endoscopy equipment for improved diagnosis and treatment, and more accurate detection of early cancer, including video capsule endoscopy and enteroscopy.
• Expert pathologists for interpreting and diagnosing Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis and its possible cancerous changes.
• Leading-edge treatment based on the latest research findings.
• A close patient follow-up to optimize treatment, prevent complications and detect any possible cancerous changes.
• Access to the latest clinical trials.

The Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center offers a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic services including laboratory tests, colonoscopy, video capsule endoscopy, and x-rays. We offer the following clinical evaluation, diagnostic and therapeutic services:

Clinical Evaluations Services

• Assistance with the transition from pediatric to adult IBD care
• GI wellness and nutrition.
• Behavioral health services.

Procedures

• Colonoscopy
• Chromoendoscopy – for surveillance of colorectal cancer
• Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
• Video capsule endoscopy
• Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) – for diagnosis and management of primary sclerosing cholangitis.
• Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) – for diagnosis and management of perianal disease in Chron’s disease.
• Balloon enteroscopy – for investigation, biopsy or dilation of small lesions.
• CT enteropgraphy (CTE)
• MR enteropgraphy (MRE)