The Role of Capsule Endoscopy in Evaluating Both Suspected and Known Crohn’s Disease

Capsule endoscopy has revolutionized our approach to evaluating the small bowel. The capsule endoscope is an ingestible and disposable video camera that transmits high quality images of the small bowel mucosa. Conferring the ability to visualize the entire small bowel, capsule endoscopy (CE) has the potential to facilitate the evaluation of Crohn’s disease (CD), providing access to bowel segments previously inaccessible by push enteroscopy and ileocolonoscopy. CE appears to be complementary to cross sectional imaging techniques such as CT and MR enterography and has demonstrated comparable yields in CD patients.
Source: Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Source Type: research