26-09-2016, 03:57 PM
What if physicians had a way to see inside a patient’s GI tract by having them simply swallowing a pill-sized camera? Today, more than 1.5 million patients have experienced the benefits from PillCam capsule endoscopy. With PillCam, physicians can now visualize the small bowel, esophagus and colon* with a small, disposable capsule used to monitor and diagnose disorders of the gastrointestinal tract without sedation or invasive endoscopic procedures. Capsule endoscopy is a way to record images of the digestive tract for use in medicine. The capsule is the size and shape of a pill and contains a tiny camera. After a patient swallows the capsule, it takes pictures of the inside of the gastrointestinal tract. The primary use of capsule endoscopy is to examine areas of the small intestine that cannot be seen by other types of endoscopy such as colonoscopy or esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD).
