• Due to the large number of children with diseases of the digestive system and liver, and the lack of a special unit for the scientific concept of caring for these patients.
  • The absence of medical awareness among parents, as well as the general practitioner, of the seriousness of these diseases on the life of the child, as well as on his health in the future.
  • The absence of doctors specialized in this delicate type that requires special skill in diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.

Unit services:

  • The unit offers a variety of clinical and educational services.
    It diagnoses and treats various gastrointestinal diseases and liver diseases in infants and children using the following tools:
  • Upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy (Tuesday, Wednesday)
  • Liver tissue examination.
  • Esophageal manometry and anal manometry

Outpatient clinics include: Liver Diseases Clinic, Digestive Disorders Clinic, Milk Allergy Clinic, Gaucher Disease Clinic, and Hepatitis C Clinic.

. Intermediate care unit for gastrointestinal diseases

Steps for establishing the unit from 1986-2000:

  • Establishing an outpatient clinic in Mansoura University Hospital - for children with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver that receives these patients.
  • Establishing an endoscopy unit for children that performs upper and lower endoscopes for these children.
  • Follow-up of these patients closely to limit the progression of the disease as well as to prevent the occurrence of complications.

Steps for creating the unit from 2000 until now:

  • Follow up patients in the gastroenterology and liver diseases clinic two days a week (Sunday and Monday) due to the increase in the number of patients during that period.
  • Allocating special beds for children with diseases of the digestive system and liver.
  • Developing the unit to become the first unit to provide this service to children with diseases of the digestive system and liver in a scientific and service way at the level of Egypt.
  • Receiving patients with diseases of the digestive system and liver from all parts of the country.
  • A center specialized in children's gastroenterology and liver diseases has been established to provide distinguished services to patients in this field, as well as training young doctors from all over the Republic to limit the spread of these diseases to children.

Unit Head Quarters

Mansoura University - University Children's Hospital (outpatient clinics building - second floor)

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  2220679.

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  • Diagnosing children with diseases of the digestive system and liver using scientific methods and modern devices.
  • Treatment of these children commensurate with the scientific level.
  • Follow up patients when complications occur
  • Continuous awareness of the parents of these patients to reduce the spread of these diseases.
  • Training doctors from all over the country in this field.

The unit's achievements:

  • For scientific cooperation between the unit of diseases of the digestive system and liver and other units in Egyptian universities.
  • Scientific cooperation between the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit and other units in the United States of America.
  • Holding scientific conferences and scientific seminars on diseases of the digestive system and liver for children.
  • Participation in liver transplantation at Nile Valley Hospital.
  • Cooperation with the HOPE Foundation to treat children with Gaucher disease through genetic treatment methods, which is considered a breakthrough in this field.
  • Project for the treatment of children with chronic hepatitis C infection (Children without C virus).
  • Completion of two international training courses in diseases of the digestive system and liver in children, in which many Egyptian and foreign trainees participated.
  • Organizing an annual international conference for the unit specializing in diseases of the digestive system and liver in children, with the participation of foreign experts in this specialty.
  • Academic activity and scientific publishing for unit members.
  • The prominent role in the establishment and establishment of the children's section at the Liver Diseases and Research Center in Sherbin.

Faculty Members

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1 Prof. Ahmed Fathi Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah Professor of Pediatrics
2  Professor Khaled Zalta  Professor of Pathology
3 Professor Mohamed Glory to men Abbas Amin Professor of Pediatrics and Unit Head
4 Ed/ Abeer Fathi Ismail Salem Professor of Pediatrics
5 Prof. Ahmed Mujahid Hassan Professor of Pediatrics
6 Prof. Tarek Barakat Professor of Pediatrics
7 Prof. Dr. Mona Abdel Latif Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
8 Prof. / Sherine Magdy El-Zeini Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
9 Dr. Othman Abu Bakr Pediatrics teacher
10 Dr. Doaa Fahmy Moawad Pediatrics teacher
  Dr. Israa Zeinhom Assistant Pediatrics Teacher

1- Laboratory for measuring the motility of the gastrointestinal tract and liver:

It contains:

  • Esophageal motility.
  • Anal training
  • Mobility of the rectum and anus.
  • A 24-hour acidity study
  • Electrograph of the stomach.
  • Measurement of bile juice ratio
  • Electromyogram.

2- Motilty Lab:

  • The patient is prepared and given instructions for his preparation for the rectal and oesophageal motility test
  • The patient is prepared and admitted to the internal department for a pH test. Metry For 24 Hours
  • The patient is prepared for the breath test

Jawshar cases:

  • Different cases are made in the unit.
  • Follow-up of Al-Jawshar patients every Thursday in the unit
  • Treatment for Gausher patients is handed over to the day care nursing technician to give them treatment.

HCV cases:

  • Different cases are made in the unit.
  • Virus C treatment is taken in the digestive system and liver unit

Purpose:-

Developing a system and instructions and defining responsibilities for the work system in the digestive system unit in order to ensure the workflow of the department and ensure the speed of performance with the application of infection control procedures in accordance with the requirements of the international standard ISO 2008: 9001

3- Laboratory for measuring the functions of the intestines and liver through the breath:

It contains:

  • Lactose absorption
  • Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori
  • Efficient liver function.
  • Small Intestine Bacterial Reproduction Test
  • Functions of the Pancreas
  • Intestinal transition time
  • Stomach transition time

4- Pathology Hall

It contains:

  • Diagnostic and therapeutic upper endoscopy.
  • Diagnostic and therapeutic lower endoscopy.
  • Argon plasma unit.

5- Endoscopes Room

It includes:

  • Diagnostic and therapeutic upper endoscopy
  • Diagnostic and therapeutic lower endoscopes
  • Argon plasma unit

  •  Procedures for entering the endoscopy room:

    • The patient is admitted to the endoscopy room from day care or inpatient departments.
    • The internal department secretariat brings the patient's papers and makes sure they are correct.
    • The unit's secretariat records endoscopy cases and checks patients' papers.
  • The nursing technician hands the patient and his samples to his department or day care unit.
  • The anesthesiologist wakes up the patient before leaving the endoscopy room.
  • - The secretariat takes a photocopy of the endoscopy result and gives it to the patient.

  (diagnostic upper endoscope - upper endoscope expansion - upper endoscope varicose ligation - lower endoscope diagnostic)

 Diagnostic Endoscopes:

 

Digestive tract motility lab

  

Endorsement Lab

 

 

Pathology Laboratory

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Contact Data

60 Al-Gomhoria Street, Children's Hospital, Mansoura University, 35516

  02+ (050) 2200207 - 2200204

  02+ (050) 2200206 - 2238673

  chhweb@mans.edu.eg

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