Capsule Endoscopic Miss Rates Determined by Back-to-Back Capsule Endoscopy

Samsung Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Capsule Endoscopy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00530231

2007-05-041

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the missing rate of capsule endoscopy using back-to-back capsule endoscopy.

Sex: All

Ages: 15+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding

Exclusion criteria

• Intestinal stenosis or obstruction
• Swallowing difficulty
• History of abdominal surgery
• History of radiation therapy for abdominal or pelvic lesion
• Age < 15 years
• Pregnancy
• Unstable vital sign or massive hematochezia
• Bleeding lesion, mass > 2 cm, or intestinal stenosis found by CT angiography