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      Capsule endoscopy for investigating the digestion process

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      , MD, PhD, AGAF
      VideoGIE
      Elsevier

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          This case report video (Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org) aims to show and investigate the digestion process endoscopically. The subject of this experiment was the presenter, a healthy man in his 50s without any medication taken. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital. After 12 hours of fasting, he swallowed, not chewed, boiled rice with sliced ham and seaweed (Laminaria japonica), including a small amount of sesame seeds, with 300 mL of water (Fig. 1). Two hours after the food was swallowed, he also swallowed a capsule endoscope (PillCam SB3; Covidien, Dublin, Ireland) to start this experiment. Figure 1 The food used in this study. Boiled rice with sliced ham and seaweed (Laminaria japonica), including a small amount of sesame seeds. At the beginning, the capsule endoscopy recorded the swallowed food, which was mostly unchanged in the stomach (Fig. 2). Two hours and 40 minutes after the food was swallowed, the capsule endoscope entered the duodenum and recorded mashed rice and yellowish bile, but there was no remarkable change in the seaweed (Fig. 3). About 5 hours after the food was swallowed, the capsule endoscopy showed concentrated, decolored seaweed, which maintained its shape, and the residue was barely observable in the ileum to the cecum (Fig. 4). Figure 2 The food was mostly unchanged in the stomach 2 hours after swallowing. Figure 3 There was no remarkable change in seaweed in the duodenum. Figure 4 Concentrated, decolored seaweed maintained its shape, and the residue was barely observable in the ileum. In the ileum, the rice and ham were not detected to be digesting or to be absorbing liquid. Thus, the rice and ham were absorbed, and the seaweed was just decolored in the small intestine. On the basis of the observation of the seaweed, it is assumed that the cell wall of seaweed may be difficult to decompose, but the cell membrane of seaweed can be decomposed from the outside, and cell cytoplasm may be absorbed in the small intestine. The sesame seeds were not remarkably changed throughout the digestive tract. In this examination, the images show actual absorption ability in the small intestine. Therefore, capsule endoscopy may be useful to investigate the digestion process. Disclosure The author disclosed no financial relationships relevant to this publication.

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          Journal
          VideoGIE
          VideoGIE
          VideoGIE
          Elsevier
          2468-4481
          09 December 2019
          January 2020
          09 December 2019
          : 5
          : 1
          : 14-15
          Affiliations
          [1]Department of Gastroenterology, Nippon Medical School, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
          Article
          S2468-4481(19)30279-6
          10.1016/j.vgie.2019.10.009
          6945129
          31922073
          d4ea83ab-30df-41c5-bb8b-afcd7c2e59af
          © 2019 American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Published by Elsevier Inc.

          This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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