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Wireless Motility Capsule in Gastroparesis

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Gastroparesis

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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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  1. Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Gastrointestinal Unit, Boston, MA, USA

    Rita Brun MD (Advanced GI Motility Fellow)

  2. Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Gastrointestinal Unit, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    Braden Kuo MD, MSc (Assistant in Medicine, Director of GI Motility Laboratory)

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Correspondence to Braden Kuo MD, MSc .

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  1. School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Temple University, N. Broad St. 3401, Philadelphia, 19140, Pennsylvania, USA

    Henry P. Parkman

  2. Paul L Foster School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Ce, Alberta Avenue 4800, El Paso, 77905, Texas, USA

    Richard W. McCallum

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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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