IBD

Our Mission: The IBD Clinic at Asian Institute of Gastroenterology is dedicated to improving the quality of life for IBD patients by providing a seamless continuum of patient care, with an integrated multi-disciplinary team approach, concurrent services, and spreading awareness into the community.

Our Values: Quality care, effort and teamwork all working together to provide a state of art healthcare environment for IBD. AIG IBD registry has more than 5000 patients under close follow-up and the numbers are increasing at a rapid pace. Our patients receive the time and expertise required to establish their diagnosis and treatment plan. Maintenance of electronic medical records assists us to convey medication and treatment updates quickly with referring physicians.

OUR STRENGTHS

• Experience: Diagnosis & treatment of a large cohort of adults and children with inflammatory bowel disease including the largest electronic registry in India.
• A multi-disciplinary team approach including clinicians, radiologists, paramedical, dieticians, counsellors and basic scientists
• Latest treatment options with access to the latest diagnostic and treatment technologies.
• Comprehensive care with close monitoring.
• New ideas & new ways to diagnose and treat IBD.
• Patient support group: Regular patient interactive sessions, preoperative counselling & sociopsychological support
• A major commitment to clinical and translational research.

FACILITIES AND PROCEDURES

• Round the clock specialized services for IBD
• Endoscopy & wide-ranging endoscopic procedures.
• Faecal transplantation unit
• State of the art documentation.
• Radiology tests USG, BMFT, Multiphase CT
• TPMT estimation
• Faecal Calprotectin assay
• Toxin assay
• Specialized histopathology and IHC unit
• Genetic analysis including TPMT, NUDT15
• Specialized diet & nutrition experts for IBD
• Dedicated IBD counsellors
• Surgical Gastroenterology
  • State of the art operation theatres.
  • Advanced laparoscopic procedures.
  • Advanced seton and stoma care unit.

Basic science & translational research in the areas of GI genetics, Gut microbiome, cell-based therapies.

• High-quality research lab with experienced scientists.
• Next-generation genome sequencing.
• Stem cell therapy.
• International collaborative microbiome studies.
• Collaborations with international and national research institutes for conduction translational research. The IBD Clinic at AIG has active collaborations with the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, John Hopkins University (USA), University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) and Chinese University of Hong Kong.