Dr. Subhash Agal has 25 years of clinical experience in Gastroenterology and GI Endoscopy. He was Head of Gastroenterology Centre and guide for post-doctoral course in superspeciality degree of Gastroenterology (DNB Gastro) at Jagjivan Ram Hospital, Mumbai Central for six years. His special field of interest is Interventional GI Endoscopy which includes Luminal as well as Biliary and Pancreatic Therapeutic Endoscopies. Endoscopic Pancreatic Necrosectomy for Infected Necrosis of Pancreas is one such complex therapeutic procedure with excellent outcomes in his expert hands. Dr. Agal has routinely performed ERCP for very demanding procedures like CBD Stone Removal, CBD Stenting, Pancreatic Duct Stone Removal and Stenting, and for placement of self-expandable metallic stent in inoperable esophageal, pancreatobiliary and gall bladder malignancies. He is also dexterous at other intricate interventions related to upper GI endoscopy and colonoscopy like dilatations of strictures, polypectomies, variceal banding and glue injections, achalasia dilatation etc.
He is also very competent to do paediatric endoscopies – both diagnostic and therapeutic. He has done the maximum number of paediatric endoscopies in Western India. Variceal banding, sclerotherapy, foreign body retrievals, polypectomies are some of these procedures which are routinely performed by him with excellent outcomes. He has done numerous percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomies in infants and children who fail to thrive because of congenital abnormalities of oral cavity, congenital heart diseases, neurological defects etc. The PEG procedure has been done by him successfully on infants weighing as little as 3 kg.
Dr Agal has also been regularly doing Liver Fibroscan for detecting and prognosticating chronic liver diseases of various etiologies.
KDAH Experience
Dr Agal has performed more than 23000 endoscopic procedures of all kinds (age group 2 months to 98 years) during his tenure at Kokilaben hospital since the year 2009. These also include somne of the most complex endoscopic procedures like pancreatic necrosectomy, pseudocyst drainage, minor duct stenting for pancreas divisum, removal of giant polyps etc.
Professional Highlights
Dr. Agal has more than 50 scientific papers in reputed International and National Journals. He is Life Member of Indian Society of Gastroenterology, Indian National Association for the Study of Liver, and Association of Physicians of India.
Services Offered
Management of GERD, Nonulcer Dyspepsia, IBS and other Functional Disorders of the gut., Management of all kinds of small bowel and colonic disorders., Evaluation and management of gastrointestinal cancers., Evaluation and management of pancreato-biliary cancers., Evaluation and management of all kinds of liver and hepatobiliary disorders like cirrhosis of liver, chronic hepatitis B and C, fatty liver, fulminant liver failure, gall stones etc., Evaluation and management of pancreatitis., Diagnostic and Interventional gastrointestinal endoscopies like variceal banding, glue injection into gastric varices, polypectomy, endoscopic mucosal resection, stricture dilatation, PEG insertion, esophageal, duodenal and colonic stenting etc., Fibroscan of liver to identify and prognosticate liver disorders., Interventional Biliary and Pancreatic endoscopies., Endoscopic Pancreatic Necrosectomy, Endoscopic Pancreatic Pseudocyst drainage.
Expertise
All kinds of interventional gastro-intestinal endoscopies, capsule endoscopies, enteroscopies and fibroscan of liver. High level of skill in diagnosis and treatment of all kinds of gastrointestinal, gall bladder and biliary, pancreatic and liver disorders.