Prolonged video capsule endoscopy examination durations can improve capsule endoscopy completeness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Capsule endoscopy (CE) is useful for managing patients with suspected small bowel diseases. However, the effect of prolonged CE examination time on CE performance is unknown.

Aim

To evaluate the completeness and diagnostic yield of prolonged CE imaging in patients with suspected small bowel bleeding.

Methods

We reviewed consecutive records of adult CE examinations via an overnight protocol from Jan 2016 to Dec 2020 at a tertiary center in Taiwan. We subcategorized the CE records by recording length into within 8 h, within 12 h and throughout the whole procedure and compared the completion rate and diagnostic yield between the groups. Cochran's Q test was used for statistical analysis.

Results

A total of 88 patients were enrolled with 78.4% inpatients

SUBMITTER: Lin KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11440704 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature