Su1326 CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PATENCY OF GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT IN CROHN'S DISEASE EVALUATED BY PATENCY CAPSULE

Capsule Endoscopy (CE) enables non-invasive visualization of the whole small bowel in Crohn ’s disease (CD), but should not be carried out in patients with bowel stricture. Pillcam patency capsule (PC) is identical in size with the CE and can be ingested before conducting the CE examination to ensure patency of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. However, it is not clarified whether PC eval uation itself affects the clinical course of CD. We aimed to evaluate the clinical significance of GI patency which the PC demonstrated.

Source: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - May 31, 2019 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Masanao Nakamura, Takeshi Yamamura, Keiko Maeda, Tsunaki Sawada, Yasuyuki Mizutani, Takeshi Kuno, Keisaku Yamada, Takuya Ishikawa, Kazuhiro Furukawa, Eizaburo Ohno, Ryoji Miyahara, Hiroki Kawashima, Yoshiki Hirooka Tags: Sunday abstract Source Type: research