Diagnostics and Treatments
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Diagnostics: Ways to diagnose your condition. Treatments: Ways to treat your condition.
Explore the different ways we can diagnose and treat your condition. An accurate diagnosis is the first step in the journey to achieving effective treatment for your condition.
Panendoscopy (assessment of the throat, larynx, oesophagus, and upper airways)
A panendoscopy is a test to look at your upper airway. This includes your mouth, nose, voice box and top of your food pipe.
Paracentesis or Thoracentesis
Paracentesis is a procedure to drain fluid from around your lungs in the pleural space, which is the space between your lung and chest cavity.
Parotidectomy, submandibular gland resection, and minor salivary gland surgery
A range of surgical treatments for salivary gland tumors.
PEG insertion
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is a method of placing a tube into the stomach percutaneously, aided by endoscopy.
Pelvic floor reconstruction
A pelvic floor reconstruction is a major surgical procedure that is designed to restore strength and integrity to the pelvic floor.
Pelvic Oncology Surgery
Pelvic exenteration is surgery to treat cancer of your reproductive organs.
Percutaneous biliary drainage
A biliary drain allows bile to flow out from a blocked bile duct into a collection bag outside the body to treat jaundice.
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) of Chronic Total Occlusion(CTO)
A minimally invasive technique used to treat patients with chronic total occlusion (CTO), or complete blockages, of the coronary arteries.
Continue readingPercutaneous Coronary Intervention (Stenting)
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a treatment to open a blocked artery.
Continue readingPercutaneous nephrostomy
Percutaneous nephrostolithotomy (or nephrolithotomy) is the passing of a special medical instrument through your skin into your kidney to remove kidney stones.
Pericardiocentesis
Pericardiocentesis is a procedure carried out to remove fluid which has built up in the sac around the heart. This procedure is minimally invasive and involves the use of a needle and a small catheter to drain this excess fluid from the sac.
Continue readingPersistent Postural Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD)
Medicine for the treatment of Persistent Postural Perceptual Dizziness, a chronic functional disorder of the nervous system.