New magnetic tech allows doctors to perform guided endoscopy which could make belly pain easier and faster to diagnose. It works like this: The patient swallows a magnetic, pill-sized device with a tiny camera.
“If this was as accurate as endoscopy, and the risks and cost to the patient were much lower, then maybe we’d consider more widespread screening for gastric cancer,” Meltzer said.
“The upper GI tract has been very challenging to evaluate with capsules, due to our inability to control their movement.“That's where the joystick technology comes into play, where we are now able to maneuver magnetically controlled capsules and visualize the entire stomach and important landmarks in a noninvasive manner," she said.
Meltzer and researchers at the University of Massachusetts are doing follow-up studies of the capsule, but with a detachable tether that allows for examination of the lower esophagus. Shabana F. Pasha, MD, professor of medicine and vice chair of gastroenterology and hepatology, Mayo Clinic Arizona.
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