Digestive disease
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All diseases that pertain to the gastrointestinal tract are labelled as digestive diseases. This includes diseases of the esophagus, stomach, first, second and third part of the duodenum, jejunum, ileum, the ileo-cecal complex, large intestine (ascending, transverse and descending colon) sigmoid colon and rectum.
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esophagus - stomach: | Halitosis | Nausea | Vomiting | Heartburn | GERD | Achalasia | Esophageal cancer | Esophageal varices | Peptic ulcer | Abdominal pain | Stomach cancer | Non-ulcer dyspepsia | Gastroparesis |
liver - pancreas - gallbladder - biliary tree: | Hepatitis | Cirrhosis | NASH | PBC | PSC | Budd-Chiari | Hepatocellular carcinoma | Acute pancreatitis | Chronic pancreatitis | Hereditary pancreatitis |
small intestine: | Peptic ulcer | Intussusception | Malabsorption (e.g. coeliac, lactose intolerance, fructose malabsorption, Whipple's) |
colon: | Diarrhea | Appendicitis | Diverticulitis | Diverticulosis | IBD (Crohn's, Ulcerative colitis) |