On 10 August I'm going in for a capsule endoscopy.
All patients fasted overnight and underwent capsule endoscopy.
Diagnostic imaging to establish lesion type and extent of involvement include barium enema, small-bowel series, colonoscopy, and capsule endoscopy.
Small bowel examination can be accomplished with standard small bowel follow-through, enteroclysis, push enteroscopy, Sonde enteroscopy, wireless capsule endoscopy, and intraoperative enteroscopy.
A recent development is ‘wireless capsule’ or capsule endoscopy.
When compared with push enteroscopy, capsule endoscopy has been shown to have the better diagnostic yield in identifying small bowel lesions.
In the 13 patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding, capsule endoscopy was significantly more likely to have found a definitive diagnosis than barium follow-through.
Video capsule endoscopy showed virtual pan-atrophy of the small bowel but no evidence of lymphoma.
Complications from capsule endoscopy, such as impaction and small bowel stricture, have been reported.
Definition of capsule endoscopy in US English:
capsule endoscopy
noun
See capsule endoscope
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On 10 August I'm going in for a capsule endoscopy.
All patients fasted overnight and underwent capsule endoscopy.
Diagnostic imaging to establish lesion type and extent of involvement include barium enema, small-bowel series, colonoscopy, and capsule endoscopy.
Small bowel examination can be accomplished with standard small bowel follow-through, enteroclysis, push enteroscopy, Sonde enteroscopy, wireless capsule endoscopy, and intraoperative enteroscopy.
A recent development is ‘wireless capsule’ or capsule endoscopy.
When compared with push enteroscopy, capsule endoscopy has been shown to have the better diagnostic yield in identifying small bowel lesions.
In the 13 patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding, capsule endoscopy was significantly more likely to have found a definitive diagnosis than barium follow-through.
Video capsule endoscopy showed virtual pan-atrophy of the small bowel but no evidence of lymphoma.
Complications from capsule endoscopy, such as impaction and small bowel stricture, have been reported.