Wireless endoscopy

Abstract

These experiments demonstrate the feasibility of constructing a new type of endoscope that can transmit moving color television images from the GI tract without requiring fiberoptic or electrical cables.

Wireless capsule endoscopy: a comparison with push enteroscopy in patients with gastroscopy and colonoscopy negative gastrointestinal bleeding

“…These included angiodysplasia 16 (fig 2), focal active bleeding 8 (fig 3), small bowel tumour both located in the ileum 2 (both carcinoid tumours), apthous ulceration and skip lesions suggestive of The wireless capsule also made some diagnoses outside the small intestine: Cameron erosions in a large hiatus hernia, small gastric angiodysplasia (associated with small intestinal angiodysplasia) in two patients, a gastric ulcer, a caecal polyp, and a caecal angiodysplasia. All gastric abnormalities were confirmed at subsequent push enteroscopy; the colonic abnormalities were confirmed and treated at subsequent colonoscopy.…”

“…Development of a new radiotelemetry capsule video endoscope, which is small enough to be swallowed (11×27 mm) and has no external wires, fibreoptic bundles, or cables, [15][16][17][18] made it possible to acquire images of the whole of the small bowel.…”

Wireless capsule endoscopy in patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding: a comparative study with push enteroscopy

“…2 A high rate of re-bleeding occur in these patients and intraoperative endoscopy is sometimes necessary to achieve a definitive diagnosis. 9 In the last years, capsule endoscopy (CE) has been developed to explore the whole small bowel [10][11][12] and has shown a good diagnostic yield in patients with OGB. [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] This study was aimed to compare the diagnostic yield of CE and push enteroscopy in patients with OGB, and to analyse the impact of CE findings on the therapeutic approach and clinical outcome of these patients.…”

Capsule endoscopy in diagnosis of small bowel Crohn’s disease

“…The alternative solution should be relatively comfortable for patients, easy to use by gastroenterologists, and one that could provide a reasonable level of visual imaging for the detection of small bowel abnormalities. The Given diagnostic imaging system (M2A Capsule) [2][3][4][5][6][7] is a new modality designed to accommodate these requirements.…”

“…Wireless capsule endoscopy (CE) [2][3][4][5][6][7] has now made painless imaging of the entire small bowel possible. In some trials, CE proved to have a higher diagnostic yield in patients with suspected small bowel diseases [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] .…”