Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) is a non-invasive as well as an innovative solution for the detection of gastrointestinal diseases especially for small bowel diseases, such as polyps that is a main cause for gastrointestinal bleeding. The quality in these Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) images is very critical for diagnosis. The image quality is often affected with noise or degradation in acq...

Swallowing a Tiny Imaging Capsule Aids in Diagnosis of Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding The use of a small wireless capsule video device to detect bleeding in the small intestine is safe, well-tolerated, and more accurate than another common diagnostic approach according to a study presented at a meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology. “The investigation of obscure gastrointestina...

This paper describes the journey of a patient with coeliac disease who presented with overt obscure gastrointestinal bleeding. Upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy did not reveal a source of bleeding, but an abdominal CT scan detected abnormal lymphadenopathy and a wireless capsule endoscopy diagnosed a jejunal tumour, which was surgically removed. Gastrointestinal bleeding is rare in cel...

Capsule endoscopy has been heralded as a technological milestone in the diagnosis and therapeutics of gastrointestinal (GI) pathologies. The location position capsule within GI tract are important information for subsequent surgical intervention or local drug delivery. Accurate is therefore required during endoscopy. Although radio frequency (RF)-based, magnetic tracking video localization have...

Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is one of the great milestones in the field of gastroenterology. It is versatile in image acquisition, painless and can reach parts of the small bowel not amenable to conventional endoscopy. The commonest complication with WCE is retention of the capsule. We report a case of retained capsule in a child who was being investigated for obscure gastrointestinal blee...

An 80-year-old woman presented with recurrent occult gastrointestinal bleeding requiring blood transfusions. She underwent endoscopy and colonoscopy that failed to identify the cause of bleeding. An enteroscopy revealed duodenal arteriovenous malformation that was cauterized. However, anemia and occult gastrointestinal bleeding recurred. A repeat enteroscopy was negative. A wireless capsule end...