{"id":159,"date":"2019-04-05T19:32:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T16:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaucoma-cataractcarelondon.co.uk\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2023-12-15T20:33:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T17:33:57","slug":"gastroenterology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/drlaskaratos.co.uk\/?page_id=159","title":{"rendered":"GASTROENTEROLOGY"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"159\" class=\"elementor elementor-159\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7b494a2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7b494a2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ada5f69\" data-id=\"ada5f69\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55ac1cc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"55ac1cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1282 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/drlaskaratos.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/S101_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drlaskaratos.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/S101_.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/drlaskaratos.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/S101_-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/drlaskaratos.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/S101_-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/drlaskaratos.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/S101_-768x256.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/strong><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ec5c4c elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"7ec5c4c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1b65471 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1b65471\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-815d45d\" data-id=\"815d45d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9128995 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9128995\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One of Dr Laskaratos\u2019 main interests is making endoscopy and colonoscopy easier and more comfortable for his patients. As an experienced and specialist endoscopist at St Mark\u2019s, The National Bowel Hospital, he has an excellent endoscopic technique and uses appropriately minimally invasive procedures to investigate his patients\u2019 symptoms, such as video capsule endoscopy &#8211; which is simply swallowed by the patient with a sip of water &#8211; and transnasal endoscopy, which significantly reduces gagging and can be performed without sedation, allowing for a quick patient recovery.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr Laskaratos\u2019 interests are varied and he often treats patients with common bowel symptoms and conditions, such as:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Acid reflux<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Swallowing difficulties<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Indigestion (dyspepsia)<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nausea and vomiting<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Slow gastric emptying (gastroparesis)<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bloating and abdominal pain<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Constipation (slow bowel transit) and diarrhoea<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Small bowel disorders such as Crohn\u2019s disease and coeliac disease<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gut polyposis syndromes and gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumours<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bowel cancer screening, surveillance and removal of polyps for colon Cancer prevention<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Non-complex inflammatory bowel disease<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Iron deficiency anaemia<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Dr Laskaratos\u2019 main interests is making endoscopy and colonoscopy easier and more comfortable for his patients. As an experienced and specialist endoscopist at St Mark\u2019s, The National Bowel Hospital, he has an excellent endoscopic technique and uses appropriately minimally invasive procedures to investigate his patients\u2019 symptoms, such as video capsule endoscopy &#8211; which &#8230; <a title=\"GASTROENTEROLOGY\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/drlaskaratos.co.uk\/?page_id=159\" aria-label=\"Read more about GASTROENTEROLOGY\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-159","page","type-page","status-publish"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drlaskaratos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drlaskaratos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drlaskaratos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drlaskaratos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drlaskaratos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":81,"href":"https:\/\/drlaskaratos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"https:\/\/drlaskaratos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drlaskaratos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}