Capsule endoscopy and bowel preparation with oral sodium phosphate: a prospective randomized controlled trial

Effectiveness of Magnesium Citrate as Preparation for Capsule Endoscopy: A Randomized, Prospective, Open-Label, Inter-Group Trial

“…In principle, CE is a procedure that can only be performed in the fasting state [10]. In order to improve observational yield, diagnostic yield, and the large bowel arrival rate, a number of studies have been conducted using a variety of preparations (table 4) [5,6,7,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30]. However, studies evaluating the efficacy of MC as bowel preparation are currently very limited in number [22,24].…”

Evaluation of Different Bowel Preparations for Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Study

“…Recently, Lapalus et al [12] have evaluated the effect of bowel preparation with ASP. In a randomized trial of 127 patients requiring CE due to obscure gastrointestinal bleeding, no difference was detected in the quality of the bowel preparation between those administered ASP and those who simply fasted for 8 h. Likewise, no differences were found in gastric transit time, small-bowel transit time or detection of lesions.…”

Intestinal preparation prior to capsule endoscopy administration

“…Results such as those of Pons et al [13] and Lapalus et al [14] tilt the balance in favour of no prior preparation. Lapalus et al [14] compared the administration of aqueous sodium phosphate (ASP) vs clear liquids and did not observe any difference in the level of cleanliness or in visibility.…”

“…Lapalus et al [14] compared the administration of aqueous sodium phosphate (ASP) vs clear liquids and did not observe any difference in the level of cleanliness or in visibility.…”