Examples of such causes include angiodysplasia or angioectasia, small bowel Crohn's disease and small bowel malignancy. Intraoperative endoscopy ... which may lead to capsule retention.

Guided capsule endoscopy could pave the way for the future of endoscopic examination of the stomach, according to the findings of a feasibility study by Jean-Francois Rey and colleagues.

Capsule endoscopy has revolutionized the investigation of small-bowel disease and seems to be superior to scintigraphy and conventional procedures for small-bowel evaluation. Nevertheless ...

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 ...

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

A new procedure using tiny cameras inside a pill to help detect bowel cancer is to be tested in North Yorkshire. Health bosses said the ColoCap study would see up to 1,000 patients swallow the ...

Coshocton Public Health District will present Coffee with A Doc, on Monday, Oct. 21, featuring Dr. Kamesh Gupta from Genesis ...

using a capsule that you swallow which has a small wireless camera that sends pictures of the inside of your bowel to a data recorder. An alternative test is a CT colonography, which tends to be ...

Credit: Vast An important factor that might contribute to the likelihood of Haven-1 launching is that it's a single, relatively small capsule (for reference, see the layout above.) In contrast ...

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Video capsule endoscopy (VCE) is being increasingly used to investigate small bowel pathology. It is the gold standard for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding and iron deficiency anemia. VCE has ...