Endoscopy using a wireless capsule appeared feasible for the longitudinal monitoring of Crohn’s disease in the small intestine, according to research published in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Gil Y.

Though generally reliable, current modalities used to diagnose and assess CD are imperfect. SBCE has been found to be a safe and effective alternative to endoscopy for both diagnosing and monitoring ...

VCE is one of the evolving techniques for the investigation of the small intestine that may not be accessible to conventional endoscopy techniques, such as EGD and colonoscopies. In cases of obscure ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . While both tests “have an important positive impact on the diagnosis and management of small-bowel diseases,” ...

Results from a prospective trial comparing the effectiveness of wireless capsule endoscopy (CE) with that of barium contrast series suggest that CE is a highly accurate technique for small-bowel polyp ...

Orlando, Tuesday, May 20, 2003 -- Video capsule endoscopy is a novel technology that is designed primarily to image the small intestine. The current version of the capsule is called the M2A Plus ...

Researchers suggest capsule endoscopy should be the first-line modality for detecting small bowel Crohn’s disease in patients without endoscopic or clinical suspicion of stenosis, according to an ...

In a pooled analysis involving over 2,300 patients, purgative preparations were linked to a 15% improvement in adequate small bowel cleansing (pooled rate difference [RD] 0.15) compared with fasting ...

A study published in American Journal of Physiology – Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology demonstrated both mouse and human tissue-engineered small intestine had the features of a small intestine.

Periampullary and duodenal cancer are major causes of morbidity in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP); capsule endoscopy (CE) might be useful for the detection of small-bowel polyps in ...