Given Releases Studies About how PillCam Can Help Kids

LONDON—Given Imaging Ltd. announced three new studies that demonstrate the clinical utility of PillCam SB capsule endoscopy in providing physicians with critical information on how they manage and/or diagnose intestinal disorders in children. The studies were presented at Gastro 2009.

In presentation #OP182, Professor Annette Fritscher-Ravens, Department of Interdisciplinary Endoscopy, University Hospital Kiel, Germany, concluded that physicians should consider wireless capsule endoscopy exams for children under eight years of age when other diagnostic methods failed to identify the cause of their GI symptoms. Physicians participating in this study changed the clinical management 100 percent of the time when capsule endoscopy studies revealed pathology. The study also concluded that negative findings may be as useful as positive findings in influencing the patient management plan.

The second, a poster presentation (P1369) led by Dr. Ernest G. Seidman, Professor of Medicine and Chair of IBD at McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Canada, concluded that capsule endoscopy is clinically useful in symptomatic pediatric patients with known Crohn’s disease when endoscopic and barium studies are negative. As a result of the CE findings, study investigators changed how they clinically managed more than half of the patients in the study.

A third poster presentation (P0195) led by Salvatore Cucchiara, MD, PhD, Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit, Sapienza University of Rome, concluded that information from PillCam SB procedures can help classify IBD as either Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis or unclassified IBD among children. These results were determined to have important clinical and therapeutic implications.