..., no prospective study supports this management. We evaluated the utility of early small bowel capsule endoscopy (CE) after negative colonoscopy results. Methods: This prospective study evaluated the diagnostic yield of early small bowel CE (≤3 days from visit) for consecutive patients with acute-onset...

... with other techniques. Neuroendocrine neoplasms Double-balloon enteroscopy Capsule endoscopy Small bowel Enteroscopy © 2020 S. Karger AG, Basel 2020 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be translated into other languages...

...-center, single-arm, prospective pilot study. From February 2017 to March 2019, we performed video capsule endoscopy (VCE) to screen 10 patients who took NSAIDs continuously for more than 3 months, and 7 of those with severe small intestinal damage were enrolled. Participants were treated with oral...

...Kenji Watanabe; Naoki Ohmiya; Masanao Nakamura; Yasuhiro Fujiwara Background: Patency confirmation is useful for avoiding the retention of capsule endoscopy (CE). We first evaluated the clinical utility of the tag-less PillCam TM Patency Capsule (PPC) for up to 72 h after ingestion prospectively...

... transplantation (allo-SCT) is a curative therapy for hematological malignancies, but transplant-related mortality (TRM) remains a concern. This study aimed to determine the efficacy of capsule endoscopy (CE) by evaluating the correlation between inflammatory findings on CE and TRM. Methods: The data of patients...

...Akira Harada; Takehiro Torisu; Yasuharu Okamoto; Atsushi Hirano; Junji Umeno; Tomohiko Moriyama; Ema Washio; Yuta Fuyuno; Shin Fujioka; Takanari Kitazono; Motohiro Esaki Background: Although capsule endoscopy (CE) is useful to evaluate obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB), CE does not always...

... (OGIB) who underwent capsule endoscopy (CE). Methods: In our hospital, 429 patients underwent CE between November 2007 and March 2012. Among them, 259 patients underwent CE as the first examination for OGIB and were then followed at 77 clinics and hospitals. The clinical characteristics were...

.... To investigate whether there is an association between H. pylori infection and small intestinal mucosal injury. Methods: Patients were selected from a general pool of subjects who underwent capsule endoscopy for current or past obscure gastrointestinal bleeding. Characteristics including age, gender, history...

... was 41.5%. Among 200 patients with non-extracorporeal elimination, the PC reached the large intestine in 166 patients (48.5% of the total patients). Small-bowel capsule endoscopy (CE) was performed in all 308 patients, and the entire small bowel could be observed in 98.4%. Capsule retention...

...Kazeo Ninomiya; Takashi Hisabe; Yuki Okado; Yasumichi Takada; Rino Yamaoka; Yuho Sato; Masahiro Kishi; Noritaka Takatsu; Toshiyuki Matsui; Toshiharu Ueki; Kenshi Yao; Fumihito Hirai Background: Capsule endoscopy (CE) has allowed the characterization of small bowel lesions. However, small bowel...

... exacerbation in patients with liver cirrhosis (LC). Methods: Fifty patients with LC (33 male; mean age, 67 years), who underwent capsule endoscopy (CE) at the Hiroshima University Hospital between February 2009 and September 2015, were followed up for >6 months. Exacerbation is defined as the appearance...

... for gastroenterologists. Most bleeding lesions associated with OGIB are present in the small intestine and sometimes cannot be identified due to the difficulty associated with physical accessibility. Capsule endoscopy (CE) and double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE) have enabled in the process of diagnosing and have evolved...

... range 7.4-17.3 years) underwent PC examination (Table 1 ). The indications for capsule endoscopy are shown in Table 1 . None of the patients had any neurological disorders that could have affected capsule ingestion. Seven of the 15 patients who were unable to ingest the PC at the initial trial...

... performed, followed immediately by no contrast plain abdominal CT (NCCT). The ability of plain AXR and TS in localization of the capsule in the intestine was compared with that of abdominal CT; the gold standard procedure. Tomosynthesis Capsule endoscopy Patency capsule Localization...

... of capsule retention during capsule endoscopy (CE). Typically, the use of patency capsules prior to CE requires patients to be monitored over a period of time. To reduce the need for frequent outpatient visits during PPC examination and CE, we developed the overnight CE (ON-CE) procedure. Methods: Between...

... aimed at clarifying these differences in small-bowel mucosal injury by using capsule endoscopy (CE). Methods: We retrospectively compared the records of 78 and 40 obscure gastrointestinal bleeding patients receiving low-dose aspirin (LDA) and non-aspirin NSAIDs, respectively. All patients were found...

...Helmut Neumann; Lucía C. Fry; Markus F. Neurath Since the advent of capsule endoscopy (CE) more than one decade has passed. During this time, extensive efforts have been made to proof the relevance of CE for diagnosis of various disease entities within the esophagus, small bowel, and colon. To date...

...Kazeo Ninomiya; Kenshi Yao; Toshiyuki Matsui; Yuho Sato; Masahiro Kishi; Yoshihiko Karashima; Hiroshi Ishihara; Fumihito Hirai Background and Aim: Capsule endoscopy (CE) is effective in the detection of small bowel lesions. Many studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of preparations...

... the small bowel by capsule endoscopy in patients with UC. Methods: The study was conducted in 23 well-documented UC patients and 23 control volunteers. The frequency of small-bowel lesions, the number of small-bowel lesions per patient and the capsule endoscopy score were comparatively evaluated between...

...Kunihiro Hosono; Hiroki Endo; Eiji Sakai; Yusuke Sekino; Takashi Uchiyama; Seitaro Watanabe; Hiroshi Iida; Yasunari Sakamoto; Tomoko Koide; Hirokazu Takahashi; Masato Yoneda; Chikako Tokoro; Yasunobu Abe; Masahiko Inamori; Noritoshi Kobayashi; Kensuke Kubota; Atsushi Nakajima Aim: Capsule endoscopy...