POSTS TAGGED AS endoscopy

Biomarkers for Diagnosing Crohn’s Disease

GA Clinical Practice Guideline on the Role of Biomarkers for the Management of Crohn’s Disease
“In the CALM (Effect of Tight [MORE]

Hydrogel for Removing Kidney Stone Fragments

Hydrogel with small fragments of kidney stones
“Kidney stones are often removed via an endoscopic procedure. If a stone is too [MORE]

Endoscopy with Ultrasound and OTC

In vivo evaluation of endometrium through dual-modality intrauterine endoscopy
“In this paper, we [Chinese scientists at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced [MORE]

Magnetic Catheters/Autonomous Endoscopy

Patient-Specific Magnetic Catheters for Atraumatic Autonomous Endoscopy
“We [electrical engineers at the University of Leeds] design and manufacture a fully shape-forming, [MORE]

Phonon Imaging in Endoscopy

Phonon imaging in 3D with a fibre probe
“We [engineers, University of Nottingham] show for the first time that a single [MORE]

Computer Vision for Endoscopic Colonoscopy

Medtronic-GI-Genius-Intelligent-Endoscopy-Module
This piece is about Medtronic’s newly FDA approved “GI Genius” colonoscope.  “Even highly experienced gastroenterologists can miss a polyp while [MORE]

“Duodenal Mucosal Resurfacing”

 

Fractyl Laboratories (Lexington, MA) has shown how an endoscopic treatment of heat and water strips away a portion of the [MORE]

Clot-Removing Devices

Stryker Trevo ProVue Retrieval System
Blood clots account for most of the 795,000 strokes each year in the United States, and [MORE]

Spray Cryotherapy: Freezing Tumors Inside the Body

Endo Cryo Treatment Area-
CSA Medical (Baltimore, MD) has developed a spray freezing technology for destroying tumors in the body without [MORE]

Panoramic Endoscopy

Endoscopy with Panoramic View
Imagine using a plastic straw, inserted through a keyhole, to see what’s behind a closed door. This [MORE]

Colon Capsule Endoscopy: Automated Image Scanning

Polyp Detection
Colonoscopies with an endoscope certainly are invasive and expensive.  But camera pills offer an alternative which as least [MORE]

Micro-Endoscopy

Normal human vision can see things as small as 125 microns (i.e. 125 thousands of a millimeter); today’s best [MORE]

New Light on Pancreatic Cancer

Pancreatic Cancer
Gastrointestinal researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL have used an endoscope, fitted with a special light [MORE]

Weight Loss Devices

ReShape Duo Product
There are obese people (representing one third of the US adult population) and a smaller number of [MORE]