Teppei Omori, Naoki Ohmiya, Kenji Watanabe, Fumihito Hirai, Masanao Nakamura, Kazuya Kitamura, Keiji Ozeki, Shiro Oka, Seiji Kawano, Osamu Handa, Mikio Kawai, Kazeo Ninomiya, Tamotsu Sagawa, Takahiro Wakamatsu, Akihiro Araki, Yuji Koike, Shingo Kato, Shinichi Hashimoto, Tomohiko Mannami, Konosuke Nakaji, Shinji Tanaka, Toshiyuki Matsui
BACKGROUND AND AIM: The PillCam patency capsule (PC) without a radio frequency identification tag was released to preclude retention of the small bowel capsule endoscope (CE) in Japan in 2012. We conducted a multicenter study to determine tag-less PC-related adverse events (AEs). METHODS: We first conducted a retrospective survey using a standardized data collection sheet for the clinical characteristics of PC-related AEs among 1096 patients collected in a prospective survey conducted between January 2013 and May 2014 (Cohort 1)...
October 16, 2023: Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology