Prospective blinded study of magnetically guided capsule vs. conventional gastroscopy for upper abdominal complaints
UW Denzer, T Rösch, B Hoytat, M Abdel-Hamid, X Hebuterne, G Vanbiervielt, J Filippi, H Ogata, N Hosoe, K Ohtsuka, N Ogata, K Ikeda, H Aihara, T Hibi, SE Kudo, H Tajiri, A Treszl, K Wegscheider, M Greff, JF Rey · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2013 · Heft 08
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Objectives: Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy is mostly performed under sedation and has a low yield of relevant gastric lesions in patients without alarm symptoms. A simpler filter tests such as capsule endoscopy could be helpful, but gastric visualization is insufficient with current passive capsules. A magnetically guided gastric capsule was prospectively evaluated in patients with routine indications for gastroscopy. Methods: 189 symptomatic patients (105 male; mean age 53 y) from two French centers subsequently and blindly underwent capsule and conventional gastroscopy by nine and six examiners, respectively…
