Capsule Endoscopy involves ingesting a small Capsule (the size of the large vitamin pill), which contains a colour camera, battery, light source and transmitter. The camera takes two video images every second for eight hours, transmitting images to a data recorder about the size of a portable CD player that patients wear around the waist. Once swallowed, the camera moves naturally through the digestive tract while patients carry out their normal activities. After 8 hours the data recorder is connected to computer which converts the se data into eight hours video of entire GI tract, which is reviewed by the doctor.
Capsule endoscopy helps to evaluate the small intestine, which cannot be reached by traditional upper endoscopy or by colonoscopy. The most common reason for doing capsule endoscopy is to search for a cause of bleeding from the small intestine. It may also be useful for detecting polyps, inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease), ulcers, and tumors of the small intestine
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Esophageal manometry is a procedure done to measure smooth muscle pressures in the esophagus.
In high resolution manometry, pressures are recorded at multiple sites in the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) and esophageal body ( 16 sites as standard, 8 across the LES with 1 cm spacing, 8 in the body of the esophagus with 3 cm spacing), so ‘complete’ data is obtained for each swallow. The pressure wave is represented as an image of the swallow. Representing the structure of the pressure wave in both time and space.
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The procedure is painless and is done without sedation. A thin flexible catheter is passed through the anesthetized nostril, into the esophagus as the patient swallows. Pressure measurements are recorded during swallows. The procedure takes approximately 30 minutes.
This is used to assess problems in transferring food from the oral cavity into the esophagus (transfer dysphagia).
The procedure is painless and is done without sedation. A thin flexible catheter is passed through the anesthetized nostril, into the esophagus as the patient swallows. Pressure measurements are recorded during swallows. The procedure takes approximately 30min .
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Lactose intolerance
Sucrose intolerance
Small bowel bacterial overgrowth.
(Patients with the above problems commonly have symptoms like nausea, cramps, bloating, gas, and diarrhea).