Necessity of Swallow Evaluations in the Elderly Prior to Capsule Endoscopy

Capsule endoscopy (CE) is a convenient and minimally invasive form of gastrointestinal visualization that has found increased favor as technology has allowed for greater quality imaging. This case addresses some of the issues with this modality emphasizing the need to assess for the contraindication...

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Autores principales: Gaisinskaya, Polina, Yoshinaga, Kai, Hernandez, Oscar L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9106531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35573579
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24138
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author Gaisinskaya, Polina
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description Capsule endoscopy (CE) is a convenient and minimally invasive form of gastrointestinal visualization that has found increased favor as technology has allowed for greater quality imaging. This case addresses some of the issues with this modality emphasizing the need to assess for the contraindication of dysphagia. In this case, we describe a frail patient who aspirated a capsule endoscopy while being evaluated for positive fecal occult blood with concomitant anemia after admission for a stroke alert.
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spelling pubmed-91065312022-05-14 Necessity of Swallow Evaluations in the Elderly Prior to Capsule Endoscopy Gaisinskaya, Polina Yoshinaga, Kai Hernandez, Oscar L Cureus Internal Medicine Capsule endoscopy (CE) is a convenient and minimally invasive form of gastrointestinal visualization that has found increased favor as technology has allowed for greater quality imaging. This case addresses some of the issues with this modality emphasizing the need to assess for the contraindication of dysphagia. In this case, we describe a frail patient who aspirated a capsule endoscopy while being evaluated for positive fecal occult blood with concomitant anemia after admission for a stroke alert. Cureus 2022-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9106531/ /pubmed/35573579 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24138 Text en Copyright © 2022, Gaisinskaya et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Necessity of Swallow Evaluations in the Elderly Prior to Capsule Endoscopy
title Necessity of Swallow Evaluations in the Elderly Prior to Capsule Endoscopy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9106531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35573579
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24138
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