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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Their doctor - a gastrointestinal specialist - may suggest they swallow a wireless digital camera about the size of a large vitamin pill that allows a close-up view of the small intestine - a 20-foot section of the digestive tract that can't be looked at during invasive exams such as colonoscopy.
		Before capsule endoscopy, which was developed by the Israeli company Given Imaging, physicians had to do surgery to actually see the inside of the small bowel.
		At an early-morning appointment, the patient swallows a disposable camera capsule that is 1 inch by 4/10ths of an inch.
	www.knoxstudio.com /shns/story.cfm?pk=TINYCAMERA-08-22-04&cat=AN (640 words)

	Thomas Jefferson University - Jefferson Digestive Disease Institute
		As the capsule traverses the gastrointestinal tract, images are obtained per second and transmitted to a data recorder that is worn by the patient utilizing a Velcro belt.
		Capsule images were judged as good to excellent by two physicians and no discrepancies of findings were noted.
		Capsule endoscopy was superior to push enteroscopy for the evaluation of obscure bleeding.
	www.tju.edu /gi/institute/centers5-capsule.cfm (1613 words)

	News-Leader.com \| Special Reports \| Camera 'pill' lets doctors see into body
		After swallowing the capsule, the patient goes about his or her daily routine while the capsule passes smoothly and painlessly through the gastrointestinal tract, continually transmitting a full-color video recording to the receiver.
		The capsule is made of specially sealed biocompatible material that won't dissolve in stomach acid and powerful digestive enzymes.
		The capsule technology stunned 85-year-old patient Maxine Robinson, born the year polio was epidemic and an influenza pandemic killed 15 million worldwide.
	springfield.news-leader.com /specialreports/progress2004 (1368 words)

	Howstuffworks "Camera Capsule Voyage"
		The new capsule camera is swallowed like a pill and records images of the stomach and the small intestine as it passes through the digestive system naturally, according to Photobit Corporation, the manufacturer of the camera's image sensors.
		The capsule, which is 11 mm by 30 mm, is equipped with a small light source and a 3 milliwatt sensor.
		Researchers have found that the camera capsule is painless and easy to swallow, according to a report in the May 25 issue of Nature.
	www.howstuffworks.com /news-item8.htm (291 words)

	Ask the Doctor - St. Luke's Hospitals and Health Care in Idaho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Capsule endoscopy can also be used to help evaluate the extent to which the small intestine is affected by certain chronic gastrointestinal diseases, or to monitor treatment.
		The disposable capsule camera is eliminated painlessly through a bowel movement and is simply flushed away.
		Capsule endoscopy is a welcome alternative to conventional endoscopy and exploratory surgery.
	www.slrmc.org /askthedr/witte.html (372 words)

	Wireless Capsule Endoscopy as a Diagnostic Technique in Disorders of the Small Bowel
		Wireless capsule endoscopy is considered investigational as a technique to evaluate other gastrointestinal diseases, including, but not limited to celiac sprue, irritable bowel syndrome, small bowel neoplasm, and intestinal polyposis syndrome.
		In yet another case, wireless capsule endoscopy excluded the presence of distal angiectasia in a patient with multiple jejunal angiectasias, and this patient responded to surgical resection of the proximal small bowel and did not require further transfusion.
		The role of capsule endoscopy in the work-up of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding.
	www.regence.com /trgmedpol/radiology/rad38.html (1385 words)

	Japan Inc.: A capsule camera to save stomachs: the Norika3 ... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Compared to a traditional endoscope, which is often awkward and painful to insert, the new capsule endoscope developed by RF Co., Ltd. can be swallowed by a patient like a vitamin pill and is capable of transmitting images of the patient's body while traveling through the intestines, until it is excreted naturally and painlessly.
		In 1997, the company entered the medical industry when it developed a wireless intraoral camera, a dental instrument that dentists use to show patients the inside of their mouths on a monitor during treatment.
		The camera can transmit up to 30 images per minute, as long as the patient is wearing the vest that transmits microwaves to the capsule.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:108722548&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (1250 words)

	Olympus Medical develops capsule camera technology \| Digital Camera Review
		After they have been taken orally, the capsule endoscopes generally available today are carried through the body by the peristaltic movement of the stomach and the intestines.
		They include technology to control the capsule endoscope so that it can easily be brought closer to the part of the body that needs to be examined, and look at parts that are in shadow.
		The body of the capsule can propel itself freely within the gastrointestinal tract because it is fitted with an a mechanism that serves as a propelling mechanism and requires no external driving apparatus.
	www.letsgodigital.org /en/news/articles/story_2150.html (1057 words)

	Capsule camera the latest in diagnostic medicine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Scientists have developed a tiny camera that patients would swallow to yield a living-color tour of the digestive tract as it passes painlessly through the body.
		But they said the capsule, at least in its current form, is too limited to replace endoscopes, as the fiber-optic tubes are called.
		After she drank a purgative, doctors snaked a fiber-optic camera into a sedated and woozy Couric, examining several feet of her large intestine for pre-cancerous growths.
	www.canoe.ca /Health0005/25_camera.html (612 words)

	Fantastic Voyager - Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As for the experience of swallowing the camera capsule, Carroll, who is a research scientist by profession, said it was "like a science fiction movie." He was surprised when he saw how small the capsule was – less than a half inch in diameter by about one inch long.
		Capsule endoscopy was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2001 and is gradually coming into use at hospitals around the world.
		And while more uses for the capsule camera may be developed, the technology isn’t suited for imaging all parts of the digestive tract.
	www.enh.org /aboutus/press/article.asp?id=2874 (1017 words)

	UNC Health Care - Capsule endoscopy: Doctors at UNC now use camera patients can swallow
		Data from the capsule is transmitted to the recorder.
		Capsule endoscopy is not for everyone: People who are not candidates for surgery or who have known strictures or blockages in the digestive tract would not use the new exam.
		The next generation of capsules will be maneuverable, will have longer lasting batteries and will be able to take tissue samples or cauterize bleeding areas, he said.
	www.unchealthcare.org /site/newsroom/news/2003/Mar/camera_capsule (559 words)

	Bridgeport Hospital - Breakthroughs in Expert Care -
		The "seeing-eye pill" is actually a capsule, about the size of a large vitamin, containing a miniature camera.
		In a painless one-day procedure called "capsule endoscopy," patients report to Bridgeport Hospital's state-of-the-art Endoscopy Suite in the morning, are fitted with an external recorder worn around the waist and swallow the capsule.
		The capsule used in capsule endoscopy is made of specially-sealed material resistant to stomach acid and powerful digestive enzymes.
	www.bridgeporthospital.org /News?NewsID=1000 (504 words)

	Science News: Visionary science for the intestine - Radiology - capsule endoscopy procedure
		On its journey through the digestive tract, the tiny tumbling camera transmits images that are stored in a recorder that the person wears around the waist.
		After 8 hours, the camera's battery runs out, and the capsule is eliminated in the feces.
		To test the value of capsule endoscopy, researchers recruited 42 people who had had either an X ray after drinking a barium solution or a computerized-tomography (CT) scan to image the condition of the small intestine.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_24_162/ai_95845392 (378 words)

	ASGE :: Understanding Capsule Endoscopy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Capsule Endoscopy lets your doctor examine the lining of the middle part of your gastrointestinal tract, which includes the three portions of the small intestine (duodenum, jejunum, ileum).
		The most common reason for doing capsule endoscopy is to search for a cause of bleeding from the small intestine.
		The capsule endoscope is swallowed and passes naturally through your digestive tract while transmitting video images to a data recorder worn on your belt for approximately eight hours.
	www.askasge.org /pages/brochures/gea_und_cap_endo.cfm (631 words)

	Pill-style camera lets doctors see innards Toronto-area man with Crohn's disease the first in Canada to swallow one @ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Samelko, from Whitby, Ont., is the first person in Canada to pop a pill-sized camera in his mouth, wash down the revolutionary capsule with a glass of water and allow doctors to see what they have never seen before.
		Using 10 patients with Crohn's disease and 10 with celiac disease, Dr. Jeejeebhoy plans to compare the images from traditional endoscopy with those from the capsule camera, or "wireless endoscopy."; Celiac disease is a digestive disorder involving a gluten intolerance.
		Throughout its voyage, the capsule beams images along a radio-frequency wave to a Walkman-sized digital memory-storage device that is belted, along with a battery pack and antenna, around the patient's waist.
	www.workopolis.com /servlet/News/qprinter/20010929/UPILLN (707 words)

	RSNA: Pill-Sized Camera Detects Bowel Abnormalities Missed By Other Diagnostic Tools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The camera pill is the first diagnostic test that can detect a vascular abnormality that is the cause of most intestinal bleeding episodes, said Dr. Hara.
		The camera's ability to identify arterial vascular malformations is especially important because "we have never had a way to identify this before bleeding occurred," she continued.
		For example, the camera only works in an empty intestine requiring fasting for eight hours before ingestion, there is no control over camera angles and direction, and it is sometimes difficult to pinpoint exactly where in the bowel the abnormalities are located.
	www.docguide.com /dg.nsf/PrintPrint/04370425E24F273C85256C85005CFE54 (466 words)

	Study Shows Camera Capsule Endoscopy Works for Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
		The investigators also demonstrated that capsule endoscopy was 100 percent effective in excluding a diagnosis of Crohn’s disease.
		"Capsule endoscopy is a highly effective tool in the diagnosis and therapeutic decision making of patients with IBD-related illnesses," said Dr. Legnani.
		The study reviewed the diagnostic findings from the capsule endoscopies of 65 patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)-related indications and examined the effect of those findings on diagnostic and therapeutic outcomes.
	www.mountsinai.org /msh_news/msh_endoscopy_capsule.html (440 words)

	Carroll Hospital Center - In the News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The camera capsule is the size of a vitamin pill and contains a color camera, light source, battery and transmitter.
		It is the first non-invasive method for the direct examination of the small intestine, offering patients a simple, less painful alternative to traditional techniques, in which a flexible tube with a camera is inserted into the digestive track.
		Although the camera is most useful in looking for bleeding sources, it also can detect intestinal tumors, ulcers and early stages of Crohn's disease, said Kim.
	www.ccgh.com /news/ShowArticle.aspx?id=7 (430 words)

	Camera pill reveals damage from anti-inflammatory drugs
		According to the study, announced today at the Digestive Disease Week 2003 conference in Orlando, capsule endoscopy detected NSAIDs-related injury in the small bowel, an area of the gastrointestinal tract unreachable by other diagnostic tools such as endoscopes.
		The capsule passes through the digestive tract, transmitting color images, without interfering with the patient's normal activities.
		Capsule endoscopy diagnoses a range of diseases of the small intestine including Crohn's Disease, Celiac disease, benign and malignant tumors of the small intestine, vascular disorders, medication related small bowel injury and pediatric small bowel disorders.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-05/bcom-cpr052003.php (445 words)

	University MRI & Diagnostic Imaging Centers - Capsule Endoscopy
		Diagnostic System featuring the M2A capsule is the newest technological advancement approved by the FDA to diagnose diseases of the small intestine.
		The camera capsule moves smoothly and painlessly through the digestive tract.
		Capsule Endoscopy is performed at University MRI's North, West and JFK locations.
	www.universitymri.com /services/capsule.html (141 words)

	Pill Endoscopy, and other Pill Endoscopy information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A tiny ingestible video camera is not only less invasive than conventional tools for diagnosing bowel diseases but has now proven to be vastly more sensitive.
		A pill-sized camera which would travel through the gut looking for signs of disease is being developed by scientists.
		This capsule form of endoscopy is not suited for inspection of the...
	www.maxiscopes.co.uk /directory/pill-endoscopy.html (509 words)

	FORWARD : Forward Living (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Given's swallowable capsule — trademarked as the M2A Capsule Endoscope (M2A stands for mouth-to-anus) — has revolutionized the diagnosis of small-intestine disorders, which are difficult to visualize via X-rays or other, more invasive endoscopic methods, American gastroenterologists say.
		The camera pill, however, is noninvasive, easy to swallow — at 11 mm by 26 mm, it looks like a bulky vitamin — and locates problems other methods cannot, experts say.
		Patients pop the camera capsule — which contains a tiny lens, video camera, light, battery, antenna and transmitter — in their mouth in the morning.
	www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.11.14/living4.html (1200 words)

	Pasco: Camera in capsule explores intestine
		It's not an alternative to a traditional colonoscopy or upper GI endoscopy procedure, but it is a relatively noninvasive technology that's enabling doctors at the hospital to go where they haven't gone before when it comes to the 21-foot-long small intestine.
		A miniature camera inside the pill passes through the intestine, transmitting images via an antenna to a beeper-sized data recorder worn around the waist on a belt.
		Before capsule endoscopy, diagnostic procedures for such problems in the small intestine were limited and often didn't provide doctors with an adequately detailed image of most of the small intestine, Venu said.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/08/14/news_pf/Pasco/Camera_in_capsule_exp.shtml (495 words)

	Robot combined with swallowable camera could give docs a better look inside the small intestine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The capsule camera snaps thousands of pictures as it makes its way slowly through the narrow tract, carried by the wave-like peristaltic motion that moves all contents through the intestines.
		The capsule could thus go rapidly to a point of interest or, if sufficient power was available, move upstream to give doctors a second look at a suspicious lesion.
		The disposable camera is ingested by the patient and, as peristalsis carries the capsule on an eight-hour journey through the small intestine, it snaps thousands of images that are transmitted to a data recorder that the patient wears.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05150/512648.stm (1063 words)

	Tiny camera travels through body: 3/2/03
		After the patient swallows the capsule, the natural waves of the digestive system propel the capsule-camera down through the stomach and small intestine, all the while transmitting the images via radio waves to the data recorder.
		Also, the capsule is limited because, unlike colonoscopy, it does not permit the doctor to do therapy on the problem while the images are being viewed.
		Isenberg said ideally, capsule endoscopy will be developed to the extent that it might be used for a complete picture of the digestive track.
	www.s-t.com /topics/hg/h49lo242.htm (962 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery
		The disposable camera was designed to be swallowed and then work its way through the digestive system, taking pictures with its tiny flash and transmitting them outside the body.
		The camera was able to spot the source of bleeding in most patients, even when the endoscope had failed.
		Unfortunately, the battery in the camera only lasts eight or nine hours which is only enough power for it to work through the upper gastrointestinal tract but not the colon.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/2002/05/23/52.asp (441 words)

	Cleveland Clinic Health Systems > News
		Capsule endoscopy now makes painless endoscopic imaging of the entire small bowel possible, and is considered the primary procedure for diagnosis of small bowel abnormalities.
		Capsule endoscopy can help to determine the cause for recurrent or persistent symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, bleeding or anemia leading to the diagnosis of gastrointestinal diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome and small bowel tumors and cancers.
		The capsule transmits data to a pager-sized receiver attached to a patient’s belt.
	www.cchs.net /news/article.asp?storyID=2904 (541 words)

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