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METHODIST DIGESTIVE INSTITUTE

SHINE

Winter 2015–2016

What we do at MDI

The list of procedures available at Methodist

Digestive Institute (MDI) is extensive, and the

physicians here excel at performing them. Here

are just a few of our more advanced procedures

that you won’t find at every hospital.

In August,

Jada Watters got to meet her newest grandbaby,

and in December, she’ll celebrate her 60th birthday — both

memorable moments she didn’t think she’d live to enjoy.

In January, she was diagnosed with pancreatitis and

hospitalized for weeks. All she remembers is the pain.

“My family told me that I was asking God to take me, I

was in so much pain,” she says.

Fortunately, Jada was transferred to Methodist Dallas

Medical Center, the first hospital in the nation certified by

The Joint Commission for pancreatic surgery and home

to the new Methodist Interventional Endoscopy Center

of Excellence.

“When Jada got to us, she was very sick,” says Prashant

Kedia, MD, gastroenterologist and medical director of

interventional endoscopy for Methodist Digestive Institute.

“She had a massive fluid collection in her abdomen. It

was 15 to 20 centimeters of both solid and liquid infected

material. She was at risk for developing severe sepsis and

organ failure.”

A plan for healing

Dr. Kedia says the job of the pancreas is to produce enzymes

that help digest food. However, Jada’s pancreas was inflamed

and had sustained an injury to its main duct, causing dead

cell fluid and tissue to collect in and around the pancreas.

What doctors call it:

Endoscopic necrosectomy

How it helps:

This procedure

uses a stent to help drain dead

pancreas tissue and fluid. This

treatment for pancreatitis

patients requires no incisions and

offers almost immediate relief.

Methodist Dallas was the

first hospital in Dallas–Fort

Worth to offer this procedure

through a U.S. Food and Drug

Administration–approved

lumen-apposing metal stent.

Easier with

ENDOSCOPY

We’re treating life-threatening

pancreatitis with no incisions

WATCH AND LEARN

Prashant Kedia, MD, talks about treating

pancreatitis at

Info.MethodistHealthSystem.org/ Treating-Pancreatitis .

What doctors call

it:

Endoscopic

submucosal dissection

How it helps:

With the

help of an endoscope,

gastroenterologists

can remove early-

stage tumors from

the esophagus, colon,

and stomach.

Jada Watters is

celebrating 60 years

of life after recovering

from pancreatitis.