Development and Application of Magnetically Controlled Capsule Endoscopy in Detecting Gastric Lesions

Yaoping Zhang; Yanning Zhang; Xiaojun Huang

doi:10.1155/2021/2716559

Development and Application of Magnetically Controlled Capsule Endoscopy in Detecting Gastric Lesions

Gastroenterol Res Pract. 2021 Dec 30:2021:2716559. doi: 10.1155/2021/2716559. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Yaoping Zhang^{1

2}, Yanning Zhang^{1

2}, Xiaojun Huang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Gastroenterology, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China.
² Gansu Provincial Digestive Endoscopy Engineering Research Center, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China.

Abstract

In the past 20 years, several magnetically controlled capsule endoscopes (MCCE) have been developed for the evaluation of gastric lesions, including NaviCam (ANKON), MiroCam-Navi (Intromedic), Endocapsule MGCE (Olympus and Siemens), SMCE (JIFU), and FAMCE (Jinshan). Although limited to observing esophageal and duodenal lesions and lacking the ability of biopsy, MCCE has the advantages of comfort, safety, no anesthesia, no risk of cross-infection, and high acceptability. Several high-quality RCTs showed that the diagnostic accuracy of MCCE is comparable to the traditional gastroscopy. Due to the nonnecessity of anesthesia, MCCE may be more suitable for the elderly with obvious comorbidities as well as children. With more evidences accumulated and more innovative technologies developed, MCCE is expected to be an important tool for screening of early gastric cancer or the diagnosis of gastric diseases.

Publication types

Review