small bowel Crohn's disease and small bowel malignancy. Intraoperative endoscopy can also be used as a method for diagnosis if VCE fails, or as a therapeutic procedure for the findings of VCE.

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 ...

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 ...

Endoscopy procedures for the digestive system—upper endoscopy and colonoscopy—are similar in that they require preparation ...

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.

Medically reviewed by Kumkum S. Patel, MD A SIBO breath test can reveal if your chronic intestinal symptoms are caused by ...

Medtronic today announced the first-ever patient procedure ingestion using its next-generation PillCam Genius SB capsule ...

Medtronic reported that a patient has completed the first procedure with the latest version of its ingestible camera, used to ...

An Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) Endoscopy was performed that revealed the live cockroach lodged in the patient’s small intestine, Vatsya said. Using a specialised endoscope with dual channels --one for ...

Medtronic has partnered with the University of Miami Health System to perform the first-ever patient procedure ingestion using the PillCam Genius SB capsule endoscopy kit. The PillCam lets patients ...

"A live cockroach in the small intestine is a life-threatening situation," Dr Vatsya said, noting the urgency of the discovery. "We proceeded immediately with the endoscopy to remove it.