BACKGROUND AND AIM Little is known about the causes of overt obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB) in patients using anti-thrombotic therapy. We aimed to describe video capsule endoscopy (VCE) findings and to identify factors associated with positive findings in these patients. METHODS We carried out a retrospective study of 56 patients who underwent VCE for evaluation of previous overt OG...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIM  Video capsule endoscopy (VCE) is limited by reliance on bowel motility for propulsion, and lack of physical activity has been proposed as a cause of incomplete studies. Our aim was to prospectively investigate the association between physical activity and VCE bowel transit. PATIENTS AND METHODS  Ambulatory outpatients receiving VCE were eligible for the study. A pedo...

Video capsule endoscopy (VCE) has expanded the range of endoscopic examination of the small bowel. The clinical application of VCE is mainly for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB) and small bowel tumor is one of the clinically significant diagnoses of VCE, often requiring subsequent invasive interventions. Small bowel tumors are detected with a frequency of around 4% with VCE in indicatio...

PURPOSE The goal of this study was to compare magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) and video capsule endoscopy (VCE) in suspected small bowel disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS Nineteen patients with suspected small bowel disease participated in a prospective clinical comparison of MRE versus VCE. Both methods were evaluated separately and in conjunction with respect to a combined diagnostic end...

Cannabinoids have shown to exert neuroprotective actions in animal models by acting at different targets including canonical cannabinoid receptors and PPARγ. We previously showed that VCE-003, a cannabigerol (CBG) quinone derivative, is a novel neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory cannabinoid acting through PPARγ. We have now generated a non-thiophilic VCE-003 derivative named VCE-003.2 that p...

Previous studies showed that Chinese dyslexics exhibit more pronounced visual crowding effect (VCE) than controls and that VCE was modulated by character-spacing (Bai et al., 2016). Visual complexity of Chinese characters (defined by stroke numbers) can also modulate VCE (Zhang et al., 2009). In current study, we investigated how visual complexity (average strokes: below 8 / above 12) and chara...

Background Continuous flow left ventricular assist device (CF-LVAD) patients have a high prevalence of gastrointestinal bleeding from the small bowel. Video capsule endoscopy (VCE) is often used for diagnosis in these patients, but efficacy has yet to be determined. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of VCE in the management of CF-LVAD patients with suspected small bowel bleeding by compa...

preparation prior to video capsule endoscopy (VCE) is as essential as bowel preparation prior to colonoscopy, since several factors, such as food material, air bubbles in the small bowel and delayed gastric and small bowel transit time (SBTT) influence the small bowel visualization quality (SBVQ), diagnostic yield (DY), and completion rate (CR). The 2009 Euro-pean Society of Gastrointestinal En...

small bowel had been a no man's land, inaccessible by direct endoscopic examination until the new millennium. However , an innovative scientific advancement changed the perspectives of small bowel evaluation with the introduction of small bowel video capsule endoscopy (VCE) by GIVEN Imaging (Yoqneam, Israel) in 2001. We were introduced to the VCE during the Asian Pacific Digestive Week 2000 in ...

Background The inpatient status is a well-known risk factor for incomplete video capsule endoscopy (VCE) examinations due to prolonged transit time. We aimed to evaluate the effect of prucalopride on small bowel transit time for hospitalized patients undergoing VCE. Methods We included all hospitalized patients who underwent VCE at a tertiary academic center from October 2011 through Septembe...