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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Endosc Int Open 2022; 10(04): E293
DOI: 10.1055/a-1785-4672
Letter to the editor

Den lille Havfrue for the gut

Anastasios Koulaouzidis
1   Department of Medicine, OUH Svendborg Sygehus, Svendborg, Denmark
2   Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark
3   Surgical Research Unit, OUH, Odense, Denmark
4   Department of Social Medicine and Public Health, Pomeranian Medical University (PMU), Szczecin, Poland
,
Wojciech Marlicz
5   Department of Gastroenterology, PMU, Szczecin, Poland
,
George Koulaouzidis
6   Department of Biochemical Sciences, PMU, Szczecin, Poland
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Safety, efficacy, and maneuverability of a self-propelled capsule endoscope for observation of the human gastrointestinal tractEndosc Int Open 2021; 09(09): E1391-E1396
DOI: 10.1055/a-1507-4540

We read with interest about the safety and feasibility study on a self-propelled capsule endoscopy (SPCE) by Ota et al [1]. The authors, who have committed years of research on the prospect of “mermaid or tadpole” CE, present the latest version of their efforts, including a fenestrated cap with a tail fin made of silicon resin that vibrates under the control of an external magnetic field. It was reassuring to see that fenestrations were added to the resin cap to allow for some imaging input from the second dome of the dual-headed capsule (although the inlet image depicts only the initial version of the cap-fin that entirely covers one of its domes. This is indeed in line with recent research confirming that the use of double-headed CE provides more information with the potential to change clinical diagnosis and, therefore, management [2].



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14 April 2022

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