Cholangioscopy refers to a procedure by which your doctor visualises inside of your bile ducts using a light-weighted, very thin, flexible instrument known as an cholangioscope. SpyGlass Cholangioscopy is one of the most recent advances in the field of medicine which helps in dealing with complex biliary problems. It may help to avoid complex surgical procedures and offer solution in more simpler manner. It is used to diagnose and treat various conditions of liver, bile-duct and pancreas

1.Bile duct specific infections

2.Haemobilia ( bleeding into the bile ducts )

3.Cancer of bile ducts and pancreatic ducts

4.Exact localisation of tumour in the bile-duct or pancreatic duct

5.Suspicious or indeterminate strictures of bile-duct

6.Post liver transplant biliary strictures evaluation

7.Chronic pancreatitis

Also It is used in the treatment of conditions like:

1.Extraction/dissolution of stones in the bile-ducts which cannot be reached or removed by ERCP

2.Extraction of pancreatic ductal stones

3.Treatment of certain cancers within the bile and pancreatic ducts

To begin with, patient evaluation process and decision making are based on international standards and guidelines. Our Hospital has a team of doctors which compromises of both medical (DM gastroenterology) and surgical specialties (Mch Surgical gastroenterology) who reside in-house. Our experience and expertise are backed by adaptation of technology and bringing the most advanced endoscopic systems in the world available for our people in our state. We now introduce to you the Spyglass Cholangioscopy is a novel technique developed for the visualization of bile ducts. It allows the doctor to observe the biliary duct system along with the small pancreatic ducts which are difficult to reach.

For large stones stuck in Bile duct, they can now be removed endoscopically using the latest “Spyglass Cholangioscopy” which is like baby scopy which enters the bile duct and by using the latest laser we can break the stones and successfully clear the bile duct without surgery.