PMID: 12752345May 20, 2003Paper

Review article: The advent of capsule endoscopy--a not-so-futuristic approach to obscure gastrointestinal bleeding

Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
B S Lewis, N Goldfarb

Abstract

Capsule endoscopy is a new, wireless, endoscopic examination of the small intestine. To date, two small clinical trials have been reported utilizing capsule endoscopy in patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding, and have shown its superiority to push enteroscopy in diagnosing the cause of blood loss. No outcome studies have been reported. This paper proposes a change in practice guidelines for obscure bleeding. It is our opinion that, in the future, with the advent of wireless capsule endoscopy, the evaluation of patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding will be very different from the practice of medicine today. We believe that capsule endoscopy will become the first-line method for the evaluation of patients with obscure bleeding, once upper endoscopy and colonoscopy have been shown to be negative. In patients with active bleeding, capsule endoscopy will confirm the small bowel as the site of bleeding, providing a location, or, if the study is negative for the small intestine, may indicate that the bleeding is either colonic or gastric in origin. In a patient with active bleeding within the small intestine, the capsule will guide further evaluation and therapy. A patient with a small bowel tumour detected by caps...Continue Reading

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