Abstract
Capsule technology has opened up a new era in the evaluation of the gastrointestinal tract, being an alternative to more invasive conventional methods. Wireless motility capsule (WMC) is a device able to provide internal physiologic parameters as pressure, pH, and temperature of GI tract. WMC has demonstrated good sensitivity and specificity diagnosing gastroparesis and could serve an alternative to GES in appropriate cases, providing standardized, ambulatory, noninvasive, nonradiation, and convenient way to assess gastric and small bowel motility. Additional data, provided by this multisensor device, reveals that not only gastric transit time is delayed in patients with gastroparesis, but also other motility parameters as gastric contractility, pH profile of GI tract, and colon transit time are abnormal. WMC gives us important new insights into the pathophysiology of gastroparesis and potentially can make clinical management of these patients more efficient.
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Brun, R., Kuo, B. (2012). Wireless Motility Capsule in Gastroparesis. In: Parkman, H., McCallum, R. (eds) Gastroparesis. Clinical Gastroenterology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-552-1_10
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