Acceptability, Accuracy and Safety of Disposable Transnasal Capsule Endoscopy for Barrett ’s Esophagus Screening

Screening for Barrett ’s esophagus (BE) with conventional esophagogastroduodenoscopy (C-EGD) is expensive. We assessed the performance of a clinic-based, single use transnasal capsule endoscope (EG Scan II) for the detection of BE, compared to C-EGD as the reference standard.

Source: Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology - August 3, 2018 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Sarmed S. Sami, Prasad G. Iyer, Prachi Pophali, Magnus Halland, Massimiliano di Pietro, Jacobo Ortiz-Fernandez-Sordo, Jonathan R. White, Michele Johnson, Indra Neil Guha, Rebecca C. Fitzgerald, Krish Ragunath Source Type: research