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 ...

A small bowel capsule endoscopy can examine the part of the bowel that other tests such as endoscopy or colonoscopy might not always reach. You might have a capsule endoscopy if you have symptoms of ...

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 ...

A recent study by Yuya Ogino and colleagues created a scoring model for early Crohn's disease (CD) diagnosis based on results ...

The symptoms of small bowel cancer can be vague ... A DBE is a type of endoscopy. You’ll usually have a capsule endoscopy first and then a DBE as a follow up. An endoscopist (a specially trained ...

On either side of the capsule there are wax plugs, in which there are a few holes that allow intestinal fluid to ... the stomach via conventional upper endoscopy. In patients with swallowing ...