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.
EGD stands for esophagogastrodudenoscopy and it pertains to a visual inspection of the esophagus, the stomach and upper duodenum. The procedure is done by inserting a flexible endoscope down the throat.An endoscope is a small camera that functions as a tool to examine the internal organs.ith EGD, the esophagus, stomach and duodenum linings are examined. The endoscope is capable of taking biopsies by retrieving tissue samples that will be examined later under a microscope.