Magnetic Steering Improves Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy Completion Rate
Capsule Endoscopy, Small Bowel Disease
About this trial
This is an interventional other trial for Capsule Endoscopy focused on measuring Magnetic steering, MCE, CECR
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Adult patients aged over 18
- With gastrointestinal complaints
- Scheduled to undergo a capsule endoscopy for both stomach and small bowel
Exclusion Criteria:
- No surgical condition or refusing abdominal surgery to take out the capsule in case of capsule retention
- Implanted pacemaker, except the pacemaker is compatible with MRI
- Other implanted electromedical devices or magnetic metal foreign bodies
- Pregnancy or suspected pregnancy
Sites / Locations
- Shanghai Changhai Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
No Intervention
Experimental
Control
Magnetic steering
The patients swallowed the capsule with water in the supine position. When the capsule reached the stomach, the capsule was lifted away from the posterior wall, rotated and advanced to the fundus and cardiac regions, and then to the gastric body, angulus, antrum and pylorus. After completing the stomach examination, the capsule moved automatically without magnetic control and entered the duodenum under physiological conditions. The position of the capsule was verified through real-time viewer.
After finishing the stomach examination as the control protocol, the capsule was lifted with the magnetic control, then rotating the capsule until the camera end oriented toward the pylorus . Next, the endoscopist could drag the capsule close to the pylorus with the guidance magnet robot, waiting for the open of pylorus. Once the pylorus opened, the capsule could enter the duodenum with gastric peristalsis.