Effect of three bowel preparations on video-capsule endoscopy gastric and small-bowel transit time and completeness of the examination

Abstract

Bowel preparations for capsule endoscopy do not have a significant effect on gastric and small-bowel video capsule transit time and the rate of caecum visualization.

Evaluation of Different Bowel Preparations for Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Study

“…Some studies have demonstrated that bowel preparation has a negative influence on gastric emptying and intestinal transit time, but there is a lack of uniformity among their results. In fact, there is also evidence that bowel preparation has no effect on these parameters [7,15,16]. We did not observe differences in gastric or intestinal transit after any of the three preparations.…”

Inpatient Capsule Endoscopy Leads to Frequent Incomplete Small Bowel Examinations

“…The results of the studies which investigated the effect of bowel preparation on CECR were not consistent with each other [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] , but improved image quality has been reported. Previous studies also investigated the role of endoscopic placement of capsule and/ or real-time viewing and showed that these approaches can improve CECR [23][24][25][26] .…”

Effectiveness of Magnesium Citrate as Preparation for Capsule Endoscopy: A Randomized, Prospective, Open-Label, Inter-Group Trial

“…In principle, CE is a procedure that can only be performed in the fasting state [10]. In order to improve observational yield, diagnostic yield, and the large bowel arrival rate, a number of studies have been conducted using a variety of preparations (table 4) [5,6,7,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30]. However, studies evaluating the efficacy of MC as bowel preparation are currently very limited in number [22,24].…”