Video capsule endoscopy (VCE) is being increasingly used to investigate small bowel pathology. It is the gold standard for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding and iron deficiency anemia. VCE has ...

IDA is one of the most common presentations of obscure GI bleeding and it has several causes, which may be difficult to diagnose by conventional endoscopy ... may lead to capsule retention.

Capsule endoscopy has revolutionized the investigation ... to investigate whether electronic interference occurs between video capsules and cardiac pacemakers. The researchers individually tested ...

If your doctor recommends you have a colonoscopy, don’t worry ... It has a light and video camera on the tip so the doctor can see the lining of your colon and tell if there is any problem.

A virtual colonoscopy is doing a colonoscopy with an x-ray machine. Instead of a physician, a gastroenterologist using an instrument to go up into a colon, there's no instrument involved ...

The Colon Capsule Endoscopy device, or Pillcam, passes through the digestive system taking 50,000 pictures of the bowel on its way. Ms Gribbon, from Glasgow, had a two week wait to find out that ...

A new procedure using tiny cameras inside a pill to help detect bowel cancer is to be tested in North Yorkshire. Health bosses said the ColoCap study would see up to 1,000 patients swallow the ...