Internal Medicine Department in Mouwasat Hospital at Dammam all specific areas related to internal medicine. All sections, clinics and units attached to Internal Medicine Department are equipped with state-of-the-art medical equipment and gastrointestinal endoscopies. The Internal medicine team consists of gastroenterologists, pulmonologists, internists, multidisciplinary team of physicians, and a group of trained and qualified nurses. The Internal Medicine Department provides its services all community segments of all age groups, including: adolescents and older persons. The Internal Medicine Department intends to provide all services related to internal medicine and to treat all digestive tract diseases and problems. In addition, Mouwasat Hospital seeks to the think tank of choice for all residents in the Kingdom.
General Internal Medicine
The services and treatments include:
- All types of diabetes.
- Hyperlipidemia.
- Imbalance in blood lipid levels (Dyslipidemia).
- Thyroid & parathyroid diseases.
- Excessive Obesity.
- Osteoporosis, vitamin D deficiency.
- Calcium deficiency.
- Male hormone deficiency (Testosterone).
- Pituitary Gland Problems.
- Adrenal gland diseases.
- Prevention of diabetes’ complications.
- Bacterial and viral infections.
- Follow up chronic diseases.
- Regular checkup.
- Medical fitness examination.
Oncology and Hematology
The provided services and treatments include:
- Treating anemia.
- Treating low platelets.
- Treating low white blood cells.
- Treating blood infections.
- Treating blood clotting and flow.
- Treating multiple myeloma.
- Acute and chronic leukemia.
- Acute and chronic lymphoma.
- Bone marrow failure.
Geriatric Medicine Department
The services and treatments include:
- Alzheimer’s disease and memory impairment.
- Memory measurement and memory exercises (ranked first in the kingdom).
- Osteoporosis.
- Urinary incontinence.
- Recurrent falls of older persons.
- Malnutrition diseases frequent cases requiring special supplements*
- Early checkup of older persons.
- Determining necessary vaccinations for older persons.
Kidney Diseases
The provided services and treatments include:
- Chronic and acute renal diseases.
- Early diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of kidney and blood pressure diseases.
- Following up patients with renal failure.
- Hemodialysis sessions for patients with acute and chronic renal failure.
- Treatment of chronic renal failure complications.
The services and treatments include:
- Following up breathing functions and lungs’ efficiency with bronchial asthma patients.
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
- Early diagnosis of lung tumors.
- Pleural effusions on lungs and suction of liquids.
- Lung fibrosis.
- Pneumonia and bronchitis.
- Endoscopy for respiratory tract.
- Tuberculosis (TB).
- Chest sensitivity and bronchial asthma.
- Sleep Disorders Laboratory.
- Bronchoscopy
Endoscopies Unit
The services and treatments include:
- Single balloon endoscopy.
- Esophageal, duodenal, and colonic stenting.
- Endo suturing techniques.
- Endoscopic Mucosal resection (EMR).
- Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD).
- Endoscopic removal of digestive tract tumors.
- Treating vascular digestive tract infections by means of purple coneflower .
- Heat probe, hemospray, hemoclipping, bandligation bipolar coagulation.
- Diagnostic EUS examination for digestive tract diseases.
- Taking a sample by endoscopic ultrasound.
- Stenting of pancreatic cysts by endoscopic ultrasound.
- Treating obstruction of the esophagus by endoscopic ultrasound.
- Lower Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
- Ductus biliferi endoscopy.
- Colonoscopy.
- Bronchoscopy.
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).
- Intra gastric balloon insertion.
- Esophageal balloon dilatation.
- Esophageal manometry.
- Biofeedback.
- Esophageal manometry.
- Anorectal manometry.
- PH impedance 24 h of the esophagus.
- Capsule endoscopy of small intestine.
Treatment Endoscopies
The provided services and treatments include:
- Stopping GI bleeding by performing endoscopic band ligation;
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography (ERCP).
- Taking samples from colon; and
- Taking anal samples
Diagnostic Endoscopies
The provided services and treatments include:
- Diagnosis of tumors of duodenal ulcer and gastric ulcer;
- Diagnosis of various types of digestive system tumors;
- Determining causes of constipation and diarrhea;
- Determining causes of hemorrhage;
- Gastrointestinal diseases leading to weight loss; and
- Determining causes of indigestion
Psychiatry
The services and treatments include:
- Depression
- Schizophrenia
- All forms of phobias
- Post-delivery depression.
- Educational problems
- Anxiety neurosis
- Sexual disorders
- Following-up and treating addiction
- All types of social phobia
- Behavioral and affective disorders
- Educational setbacks
- Anxiety
- Panic attacks
- Epilepsy
- hyper-activity in children
- Alzheimer.
- Phycological seizures.
