Wireless Capsule Endoscopy
Capsule endoscopy uses a tiny wireless camera to take pictures of your digestive tract. The patient swallows a vitamin-sized capsule that contains a tiny camera. As the capsule travels through the digestive tract, the camera takes thousands of pictures that are transmitted to a recorder that the patient wears on a belt around your waist or over the shoulder.
Capsule endoscopy (CE) is a simple, safe, non-invasive, reliable technique, well accepted and tolerated by the patients, which allows complete exploration of the small intestine. The advent of CE in 2000 has dramatically changed the diagnosis and management of many diseases of the small intestine, such as obscure gastrointestinal bleeding, Crohn’s disease, small bowel tumors, polyposis syndromes, etc. CE has become the gold standard for the diagnosis of most diseases of the small bowel. Lately this technique has also been used for esophageal and colonic diseases.