SMALL BOWEL CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY
A Guide to the Test
WHAT IS CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY?
Capsule endoscopy with
PillCamTM SB video capsule enables your doctor to examine your entire small
intestine. Your doctor will have you ingest a vitamin pill-sized video capsule,
which has its own camera and light source. During the 8 hour exam, you are free
to move above. While the video capsule travels through your body, it sends
images to a data recorder you will wear on a waist belt. Most patients find the
test comfortable.
WHY IS
CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY OF THE SMALL BOWEL PERFORMED?
Capsule endoscopy helps your doctor determine the cause for
recurrent or persistent symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhoea, bleeding or
anaemia. In certain chronic gastrointestinal diseases this method can also help
to evaluate the extent to which your small intestine is involved, or monitor
the effect of therapy. Your doctor might use capsule endoscopy to obtain
motility data such as gastric or small bowel passage time.
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