Pressure, fullness or tightness in your chest. Crushing or searing pain that radiates to your back, neck, jaw, shoulders and arms â particularly your left arm. Pain that lasts more than a few minutes, gets worse with activity, goes away and comes back or varies in intensity. Shortness of breath.
Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) or oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD or OGD) is also called panendoscopy (PES) and upper GI endoscopy. It is also often called just upper endoscopy, upper GI, or even just endoscopy; because EGD is the most commonly performed type of endoscopy, the ambiguous term endoscopy is sometimes informally used to refer to EGD by default.
What is an EGD? An EGD is a test that allows your doctor to look at your esophagus, stomach and duodenum (upper part of the small bowel). He or she would like to do an esophagogastroduo - denoscopy (EGD). This test is sometimes called an upper gastrointestinal (UGI) endoscopy. For this test your doctor will use a flexible lighted tube called an endoscope.