The article summarizes guidelines for endoscopic examinations in children with Crohn’s disease (CD). may be useful endoscopists, pediatric gastroenterologists, pediatricians, pathologists, surgeons. Issues of and monitoring CD (esophagogastroduodenoscopy, ileocolonoscopy, video capsule endoscopy, panintestinal capsule) are considered.

Trypan blue is common in visualizing the anterior capsule during cataract surgery. Inadvertent staining of the posterior capsule during phacoemulsification is a rare complication and there are few reports in the literature. The proposed mechanism of posterior capsule staining in previous reports includes a compromised zonular apparatus or iris retractors facilitating the posterior flow of trypa...

Kanamycin belongs to the aminoglycoside class of bacteriostatic antibiotics that inhibits protein synthesis. Previous studies have shown that treatment with sublethal levels of kanamycin causes the extracellular polysaccharide capsule in E. coli B23 to increase in size, and potentially confers the bacterium with kanamycin resistance. This study attempted to confirm this by establishing that inc...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Delayed gastric emptying is a significant factor in incomplete small bowel capsule examinations. Gastric transit could be hastened by external magnetic control of the capsule. We studied the feasibility of this approach to improve capsule endoscopy completion rates. PATIENTS AND METHODS Prospective, single-center, randomized controlled trial involving 122 patients at...

BACKGROUND A detailed description of the vascular anatomy of the shoulder capsule is lacking, yet surgical procedures may put this capsular blood supply at risk. We hypothesized that a hypovascular area is present in the capsule. The purpose of the present study was to describe the vascular anatomy of the human glenohumeral capsule and ligaments and its relevance to surgical treatment of the sh...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Capsule endoscopy (Pillcam Colon) has recently shown acceptable accuracy in detecting colonic lesions when compared with colonoscopy. The aim of this analysis is to provide a model to assess the cost and effectiveness of population-based screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) using capsule endoscopy and to compare the cost-effectiveness with that of a colonoscopy screen...

For the purpose of optimizing the design of the locomotion mechanism as well as the body shape of a self-propelled capsule endoscope, an analytical model for the prediction of frictional resistance of the capsule moving inside the small intestine was first developed. The model was developed by considering the contact geometry and viscoelasticity of the intestine, based on the experimental inves...