AGEL Comprehensive Gastroenterological Centre

The AGEL Comprehensive Gastroenterological Centre is a newly built centre for the comprehensive care of the digestive tract which annually provides a first-class standard of treatment for more than 20,000 patients all over the world. In addition to specialised clinics, inpatient wards, a complex of endoscopic examination rooms or a multi-disciplinary intensive care unit, the clinic also has the centre for experimental endoscopy examining and developing the most complex endoscopic methods of world gastroenterology. The specialisation of AGEL Comprehensive Gastroenterological Centre can also be evidenced by both its membership in the Czech Gastroenterologic Society and the highest accreditation by the Ministry of Health for a university medical centre. The centre also cooperates with several world leading clinics and is fully adjusted to accept foreign patients who are provided here with healthcare and other comprehensive services always in compliance with the most stringent AGEL Way standards.

The greatest asset of the AGEL Comprehensive Gastroenterological Centre is its technological equipment and strong personnel background involving several highly knowledgeable, attested specialists in the field of gastroenterology, internal medicine, or several leading nutritionists. The centre always applies a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to the treatment of ill people, ensuring maximum effectiveness of the treatment. As a result of this, its specialists often cooperate with the specialists from the area of radiology, biochemistry, surgery, oncology or pathology. The centre provides its patients with a comprehensive spectrum of both the diagnostic and therapeutic digestive endoscopy and its main specialisations also include for instance endoscopic treatment of alimentary canal tumours or treatment of intestinal inflammation, pancreatic and biliary tree diseases or problems related to nutrition.

A high specialisation of the centre is also underlined by the implementation of state-of-the-art endoscopic methods. The specialists from the AGEL Comprehensive Gastroenterologic Centre were the first in the Czech Republic to remove early tumours of the digestive canal using a method of endoscopic mucosal resection and endoscopic submucosal dissection or they completely newly introduced the top, at the present time currently applied technologies such as the radio frequency ablation for Barret's oesophagus or cholangioscopy using the Spyglass system. The centre can also be proud of more than 1,000 successful cytological collections under the endosonographical navigation. The professional team views its patients as its partners whose interests are the absolute priority for them. It is for this reason as well that this centre commonly applies a method of endoscopic examination of the selected part of the digestive tract using a capsule, which is very popular among the patients and which ensures a completely non-invasive and indolent alternative when compared to the traditional examination.