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Overview

Visualize. Assess. Track Crohn’s disease over time.

The PillCam™ Crohn’s system is the only product that visualizes the small bowel and colonic mucosa directly and noninvasively — with one procedure.

That may mean greater clinical and economic efficiency for you, your patients, and your practice.

The PillCam™ Crohn's capsule gives you a 336-degree view via two camera heads (168° per head), which helps to visualize both the small bowel and colonic mucosa.([FOOTNOTE=User manual (DOC-2926-01). Page 220. August 2017.],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=])

Technology

Pan-intestinal imaging for a pan-intestinal disease

The PillCam™ Crohn’s system enables you to efficiently assess your patient’s Crohn’s disease and how well it is responding to treatment.

  • Exclusive Adaptive Frame Rate (AFR) technology, which adjusts the rate of image capture to 4 or 35 FPS, depending on the movement speed
  • The PillCam™ Crohn's capsule gives you a 336-degree view via two camera heads (168° per head), which helps to visualize both the small bowel and colonic mucosa
  • A predicate PillCam™ CE device has shown the ability to detect subtle mucosal lesions ([FOOTNOTE=Dionisio et al. Capsule endoscopy has a significantly higher diagnostic yield in patients with suspected and established small-bowel Crohn’s disease: a meta-analysis. Am J Gastroenterol. 2010;105(6):1240-1248.
    ],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=])    ,([FOOTNOTE=Leighton et al. Capsule endoscopy is superior to small-bowel follow-through and equivalent to ileocolonoscopy in suspected Crohn’s disease. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2014;12(4):609-615.],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=]),([FOOTNOTE=Jensen MD, Nathan T, Rafaelsen SR, Kjeldsen J. Diagnostic Accuracy of Capsule Endoscopy for Small Bowel Crohn’s Disease is Superior to that of MR Enterography or CT Enterography. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2011;9:124-129.],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=])  and high diagnostic yield compared to SBFT,1,2 MRE in the proximal SB,3,([FOOTNOTE=Kopylov U, Yung DE, Engel T, Vijayan S, Har-Noy O, Katz L, et al. Diagnostic yield of capsule endoscopy versus magnetic resonance enterography and small bowel contrast ultrasound in the evaluation of small bowel Crohn’s disease: systematic review and meta-analysis. Dig Liver Dis. 2017 Aug;49(8):854-863.],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=]), ([FOOTNOTE=Greener T, Klangb E, Yablecovitcha D, et al. on behalf of the Israeli IBD Research Nucleus. The Impact of Magnetic Resonance Enterography and Capsule Endoscopy on the Re-classification of Disease in Patients with Known Crohn’s Disease: A Prospective Israeli IBD Research Nucleus (IIRN) Study. J Crohns Colitis. 2016 May;10(5):525-31.],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=]), ([FOOTNOTE=Böcker U, Dinter D, Litterer C, Hummel F, Knebel P, Franke A, Weiss C, Singer MV, Löhr JM. Comparison of magnetic resonance imaging and video capsule enteroscopy in diagnosing small-bowel pathology: localization-dependent diagnostic yield. Scand J Gastroenterol. 2010 Apr;45(4):490-500.],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=])  and CTE.1,3
  • Noninvasive procedure is well tolerated by patients([FOOTNOTE=Wiarda B, Stolk M, Heine D, Mensink P, Thieme M, Kuipers E, and Stoker J. Patient burden and patient preference: comparing MR enteroclysis, capsule endoscopy and balloon-assisted enteroscopy. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2012;1-30.],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=])
  • No sedation or radiation required
  • The PillCam™ Crohn’s system may reduce the number of invasive procedures, which may help to increase your patients’ satisfaction

Indications

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Efficient Assessment of Disease Activity

Since disease activity doesn’t always correlate to how your patient feels,([FOOTNOTE=Baert F, Moortgat L, Van Assche G, Caenepeel P, Vergauwe P, De Vos M, et al. Mucosal healing predicts sustained clinical remission in patients with early-stage Crohn’s disease. Gastroenterol. 2010 Feb;138(2):463.468.
],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=]),([FOOTNOTE=Allez M, Lemann M, Bonnet J, Cattan P, Jian R, Modigliani R. Long term outcome of patients with active Crohn’s disease exhibiting extensive and deep ulcerations at colonoscopy. Am J Gastroenterol. 2002 Apr;97(4):947-953.],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=]) it’s important to directly visualize the disease progression or healing. The PillCam™ Crohn’s system enables you to efficiently assess your patient’s Crohn’s disease and how well it is responding to treatment. Here’s how:

  • Compare images and disease progression over time
  • Catalog prescriptions
  • See severity by location
  • Tailor your approach according to your patient’s specific disease state
  • Assess mucosal healing — a hallmark of Crohn’s disease remission

Available Software

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PillCam™ Software v9

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