Capsule Enteroscopy

It is a new diagnostic approach to small intestinal diseases which involves a system that allows evaluating the intestinal segments that cannot be reached out with an endoscope.

Considerations before capsule enteroscopy;

• • You should not eat or drink anything after 12:00 before the procedure, yet you can have blood pressure or heart medication with a small amount of water.

• • Electrodes are placed onto the body for the procedure and a record is kept for 8 hours by means of a camera in the form of a capsule swallowed by the patient. Then, the record is evaluated by the physician. The camera that is swallowed is single-use for each patient and disposed by physiological means. The patient can continue all of daily activities except eating or drinking during the procedure.

The reports of capsule enteroscopy can be received from the outpatient clinic secretariat 3 working days later.