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 ...
1 State Key Laboratory of Experimental hematology, Institute of hematology & Blood Disease Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, China, and ...
Abdominal x-ray revealed the classical radiological features of small bowel obstruction proximal to the capsule (figure 1). Wireless capsular enteroscopy is being increasingly used to investigate the ...
Current guidelines advocate the use of capsule endoscopy (CE) when gastroscopy and colonoscopy have failed to demonstrate the origin of occult gastrointestinal bleeding. CE has been used successfully ...
Capsule endoscopy, which uses a wireless camera to take images of the digestive tract, is emerging as an alternative to traditional colonoscopy. The diagnostic values of these images depend on the ...
The patient recovered well and completed the video capsule endoscopy the following day. In terms of aspiration treatment, in some cases, it can be resolved through active cough, chest percussion ...
CE is an easy procedure in comparison to EGD and colonoscopy. It does not require sedation or anesthesia. Furthermore, unlike EGD and colonoscopies, in CE, there is no need for the air insufflations.
Abstract: To build a wireless active endoscope with external guidance for ... An approach is to enclose a small rectangle permanent magnet in the capsule. The magnetic field, produced by the rectangle ...