Colonoscopy

After placing a cylindrical device (7 and 9 mm in diameter) which has a lens at the tail end that enables seeing and has cables inside to reflect the image, through anus, the large intestine is visually examined until the part that it converges with small intestine. When needed, Samples are collected from these sites for microscopic examination.

COLON CLEANSING OF PATIENT SHOULD BE MADE for the procedure to be applied. The patient should start a diet that does not cause sedimentation 2 days before the operation and within this period he/she should take medications that help the intestine draining in order to ensure the sufficiency of colon cleansing. When the appointment is booked, you will be informed about which medications and at which doses touse. On the day of the procedure, enema (cleansing of large intestine with a medication applied through anus) is performed to cleanse the fecal residues that will obstruct imaging. THE PATIENT SHOULD NOT BE HUNGRY unless otherwise specified.

Before the procedure, the patients are made sleep with medications and they do not remember anything about the operation. Occasionally, older patients (over 12 years) do not prefer to be made sleep. Low doses of sedative and pain reliever are transfused to them intravascularly, in order to minimize discomfort. After the procedure, the patient is followed up for 2-3 hours and discharged after she/he is observed to wake up and to have no abdominal discomfort. The examination results of the samples collected with biopsy are issued within 7 days, depending on the characteristics of procedures.