Esophageal Diseases
Conditions
Keywords
capsule endoscopy; ultrasound
Brief summary
The aim of this pilot study is to assess the feasibility and safety of the clinical application of ultrasound capsule endoscopy in esophageal examination compared with conventional endoscopic ultrasound examination.
Detailed description
Wireless capsule endoscopy has opened a new era by enabling remote diagnostic assessment of the gastrointestinal tract in a painless procedure. However, most commercially available devices only utilise optical imaging to examine the GI wall surface. Using this sensing modality, pathology within the GI wall cannot be detected. Micro-ultrasound (mUS) using high-frequency (\>20 MHz) ultrasound can provide a means of transmural or cross-sectional image of the GI tract. Depth of imaging is approximately 10 mm with a resolution of between 40-120 μm that is sufficient to differentiate between subsurface histologic layers of the various regions of the GI tract. Ultrasound capsule endoscopy (USCE) uses a capsule equipped with mUS transducers that are capable of imaging below the GI wall surface, offering thereby a complementary sensing technique to optical imaging capsule endoscopy. In this work, a USCE device integrated with a 40 MHz ultrasonic transducer was developed to capture a full 360˚ image of the lumen. Previous animal studies of two anaesthetised Landrace pigs have demonstrated the effectiveness of the device. The reconstructed images demonstrate clear layer differentiation of the lumen wall. The tissue thicknesses measured from the B-scan images show good agreement with ex vivo images from the literature. The aim of this pilot study is to assess the feasibility and safety of the clinical application of ultrasound capsule endoscopy in esophageal examination compared with conventional endoscopic ultrasound examination.
Interventions
OTHERultrasound capsule endoscopy
Healthy volunteers or patients with suspected esophageal disease will be enrolled to take ultrasound capsule endoscopy examination followed by conventional endoscopic ultrasound examination within 2 weeks.
Sponsors
Changhai Hospital
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
1. Participants aged 18 years or older. 2. Both inpatients and outpatients. 3. Healthy volunteers or patients with suspected esophageal disease 4. Able to provide informed consent.
Exclusion criteria
1. known or suspected complex history of gastrointestinal obstruction, stenosis or fistula. 2. dysphagia. 3. known or suspected possibility of active bleeding of digestive tract. 4. Pregnancy or suspected pregnancy.. 5. Patients who have participated in or are participating in other clinical trials within three months. 6. Life-threatening conditions. 7. other circumstances that doctors consider inappropriate for the study.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Success rate of esophageal examination | 1 month | Assess the success rate of the clinical application of ultrasound capsule endoscopy in esophageal examination, including observe the mucosa completely and obtain ultrasound cross-sectional images in specific parts. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Diagnostic accuracy | 1 month | The diagnostic accordance rate, sensitivity and specificity of lesions detected by ultrasound capsule endoscopy compared with conventional endoscopic ultrasound examination. |
| Clear layer differentiation of the esophageal wall structure | 1 month | Assess the success rate of clear layer differentiation of the esophageal wall structure by ultrasound capsule endoscopy examination |
| Safety of ultrasound capsule endoscopy examination | 1 month | The presence of any adverse events during ultrasound capsule endoscopy examination procedure will be recorded. |
| Examination time of esophagus | 1 month | Record the time taken to finish examination of esophagus under ultrasound capsule endoscopy. |
| Discomfort scores associated with ultrasound capsule endoscopy examination | 1 month | Assess the discomfort score caused by the string, swallowing the ultrasound capsule, pulling the capsule up or down, and pulling the capsule out. A visual analogue scale ranging from 0 (easy with no nausea) to 10 (very difficult or with sever nausea) was used to evaluate the degree of difficulty of the discomfort score caused by the string. |
Countries
China
Contacts
Primary ContactZhuan Liao, Professor
Backup ContactXi Jiang, PhD
Outcome results
None listed