Intraoperative endoscopy can also be used as ... and may require surgical treatment to extract the capsule. It is crucial to consider the risk of complications because, especially in patients ...

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health is notifying an unspecified number of patients who may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B and C during endoscopy procedures at a clinic on the health system ...

Their results are similar and show that capsule endoscopy has good performance ... with the aim of avoiding endoscopy in those at low risk of having varices. These studies have assessed the ...

The following is a summary of “Postoperative fever and clinical outcomes after endoscopic surgery for spontaneous ...

"There is a clear association between the use of GLPs and increased risks of food retention during upper endoscopy," Mathur told MedPage Today. But colonoscopy preparation protocols -- which ...

In a groundbreaking experiment, surgeons in Switzerland successfully performed an endoscopic procedure on a pig 5,780 miles away in Hong Kong. This innovative feat was accomplished using a video ...

PillSense is a single-use ingestible capsule with a reusable receiver that detects blood in the upper GI tract. The device, ...

"You just swallow this little capsule that's attached to ... highly accurate step to help in assessing the risk and deciding ...

A bowel screening procedure featuring a tiny camera inside ... anything at all" after swallowing the tablet. The Colon Capsule Endoscopy device, or Pillcam, passes through the digestive system ...

We are in the process of notifying patients who had an endoscopy procedure and may have been affected. We have determined this issue was limited in scope and the risk to patients is very low.

Your health care provider may also order an endoscopy, a procedure that allows a sample of tissue to be taken from the small ...

Video capsule endoscopy (VCE) is a procedure for inspecting the gastrointestinal (GI) tract that is principally used for areas that cannot be visualized by esophago–gastroduodenoscopy and ...