Baylor Scott & White Center for Diagnostic Medicine - Temple

Our allergists and immunology specialists help identify your allergy triggers and manage through a variety of treatment options to address your symptoms to common allergies, including:

• Alergias
• Reacciones alérgicas a las picaduras de insectos 
• Asma
• Tos crónica
• Alergias a medicamentos
• Eccema (dermatitis atópica)
• Alergias a los alimentos
• Colmenas (urticaria)
• Infecciones recurrentes
• Rinitis

Our comprehensive approach to diabetes care is committed to ongoing research, advanced treatment and development of management programs, specialized centers and collaborative care teams of specialists who provide services, including:

• Cardiology and pulmonology for heart and lung care
• Neuroscience for care of the nervous system 
• Nephrology for kidney care
• Ophthalmology to prevent vision loss
• Orthopedics, physical medicine, and rehabilitation
• Podología

Our gastroenterologists and digestive disease specialists can help you, providing a full spectrum of care for patients with concerns involving the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, rectum, gallbladder, pancreas, and liver.

Example services and procedures we offer include:

• Abdominal and endoscopic ultrasound
• Colonoscopia
• Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
• Fecal transplant
• Evaluation of liver transplant candidates
• Percutaneous liver biopsy
• Placement of external feeding tubes (gastrostomy)
• Treatment of pancreatic diseases

Common digestive diseases we treat include:

• Acid reflux
• Enfermedad de Crohn
• Colon polyps
• Liver diseases
• C. diff
• Enfermedad de reflujo gastroesofágico (ERGE)
• Heartburn
• Hepatitis
• Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
• Swallowing disorders

Our endocrinologists provide consultation, diagnosis, and management of endocrine and metabolic diseases. Endocrine disorders involve the body's over or underproduction of certain hormones, while metabolic disorders affect the body's ability to process certain nutrients and vitamins.

Conditions we treat include, but not limited to:

• Diabetes
• Obesidad
• Osteoporosis
• Thyroid gland disorders
• Parathyroid gland disorders
• Trastornos pituitarios y suprarrenales
• Colesterol alto en sangre y triglicéridos
• Ovarian disorder, such as polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)

Some procedures and tests we offer include:

• Pruebas de densidad ósea
• Insulin pump therapy
• Continuous glucose monitoring
• Thyroid fine needle biopsies and ultrasound

Our infectious disease specialists diagnose, manage, study, and innovatively treat diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi, including:

• Bacteriemia / sepsis
• Bone and joint infections
• Infecciones del sistema nervioso central
• Resfriado comun
• Endocarditis e infecciones endovasculares
• Fiebre de origen desconocido (FUO)
• Gripe
• Infecciones por hongos
• Infecciones gastrointestinales
• VIH / SIDA e infecciones oportunistas asociadas
• Infecciones en pacientes inmunocomprometidos (transplante, quimioterapia contra el cáncer, etc.)
• Lyme disease
• Malaria
• Meningitis
• Mycobacterial infections
• Infecciones de la piel y tejidos blandos
• Tuberculosis
• Vírus del oeste del Nilo
• Whooping cough

Our rheumatologists study, diagnose, and innovatively treat arthritis and other joint, muscle and bone diseases, including:

• Artralgias y mialgias
• Trastornos del tejido conectivo
• Fibromialgia
• Gota
• Lupus
• Osteoartritis
• Polimialgia reumática
• Polimiositis
• Artritis psoriásica
• Artritis reumatoide (incluida la artritis reumatoide juvenil)
• Sarcoide
• Esclerodermia / síndrome CREST
• Síndrome de Sjogren
• Tendinitis
• Vasculitis

Our psychiatrists, psychologists and behavioral health specialists provide diagnostic and therapeutic services aimed at helping you to develop strategies for coping with mental health conditions and/or substance abuse, including:

• Trastornos de ansiedad (TOC, pánico, fobias)
• Trastorno por déficit de atención e hiperactividad (TDAH)
• Binge or compulsive overeating
• Cómo hacer frente a una enfermedad crónica
• Depresión
• Dolor / duelo
• Substance abuse