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# Other investigations

Endoscopy, colonoscopy, ERCP, exercise testing, echocardiography, coronary angiography, bronchoscopy and spirometry.

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## Investigation

- [**Bronchoscopy** A thin camera is passed through the nose or mouth into the windpipe and lungs to look inside…](https://durgical.com/en/clinical-skills/bronchoscopy/)
- [**Capsule endoscopy** The patient swallows a pill-sized camera that takes pictures of the small bowel as it passes…](https://durgical.com/en/clinical-skills/capsule-endoscopy/)
- [**Colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy** A flexible camera is passed through the back passage to look at the large bowel, take samples…](https://durgical.com/en/clinical-skills/colonoscopy-and-sigmoidoscopy/)
- [**Coronary angiography and angioplasty** A thin tube is passed from the wrist or groin to the heart; dye on X-ray shows narrowed…](https://durgical.com/en/clinical-skills/coronary-angiography-and-angioplasty/)
- [**Echocardiography: transthoracic and transoesophageal** Ultrasound shows the heart beating: its walls, valves and pumping strength, from the chest or…](https://durgical.com/en/clinical-skills/echocardiography-transthoracic-and-transoesophageal/)
- [**ERCP** A camera through the mouth reaches the bile duct opening in the duodenum, and X-rays with dye…](https://durgical.com/en/clinical-skills/ercp/)
- [**Exercise and pharmacological stress testing** The heart is made to work harder, by walking on a treadmill or with a drug, while an ECG or a…](https://durgical.com/en/clinical-skills/exercise-and-pharmacological-stress-testing/)
- [**Holter and ambulatory blood-pressure monitoring** A small recorder worn during daily life captures the heart rhythm or the blood pressure for a…](https://durgical.com/en/clinical-skills/holter-and-ambulatory-blood-pressure-monitoring/)
- [**Upper GI endoscopy** A thin flexible camera is passed through the mouth to look at the gullet, stomach and first part…](https://durgical.com/en/clinical-skills/upper-gi-endoscopy/)

## Interpretation

- [**Reading spirometry: obstructive or restrictive?** The patient blows out as hard and as long as possible; how much and how fast air leaves the…](https://durgical.com/en/clinical-skills/reading-spirometry-obstructive-or-restrictive/)

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