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Diagnosis of colorectal cancer: Double Balloon enterological examination of small intestine standard now in use in the Netherlands so far ten hospitals including the VU Amsterdam and Rotterdam and Erasmus University Medical Center Utrecht.
3 january 2005: Source: thanks to William and letter sent out to us the message below comes from the website of the VUMC Amsterdam.As of January 1 is now in the Netherlands that a far less difficult to endure pijnljik and research to get the small intestine. Where even minor problems during the study also can be directly addressed. A real breakthrough in research on the small intestine seems this method. See below press release that this declared see double balloon enterological examination of small intestine gives new possibilities for diagnosis and treatment of bleeding and other abnormalities such as early cancer in the small intestine in cancer information, study results and detailed description of what this new diagnostic method means.
'Breakthrough in treatment intestinal ailments "AMSTERDAM - The so-called double-balloon endoscopy (DBE), the standard method for screening and treatment of disorders of the small intestine. The new form of endoscopy, the possibilities for identifying and treating such disorders "revolutionary widened," write researchers from VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam and Erasmus MC in Rotterdam in the journal Endoscopy. The DBE is an endoscope that is using balloons hung up in the small intestine and is thus a way to cut through the stomach and small intestine. In this way, the small intestine for the first time with a full scope examination. For the patient, the method is much less stressful. The DBE may include blood blisters in the small intestine shut up, so patients with aortic valve disease do not have to die of unstoppable bleeding from the blood blisters. Also patients with celiac disease and Crohn's disease benefit from DBE. In people with Peutz-Jeghers disease (hereditary tumors in the stomach and small intestine and colon) may polyps in the small intestine at an early stage removed. Meanwhile, ten hospitals in the Netherlands make use of DBE. The VU University Medical Center has since its inception in 2003 over four hundred scopieën done. The researchers estimate that in the Netherlands, a double-balloon endoscope is needed per one million people in need.
