"Crohn's disease?"

The doctors at Xijing Hospital who were present all nodded slightly, and their minds were quickly recalling the cause and characteristics of Ke's disease.

Although this disease is treated by gastroenterologists, it is difficult to diagnose due to limitations of examination methods and equipment. Therefore, it was considered a rare disease in the 1980s and not much research was done on it.

Crohn's disease, also known as Crohn's disease, Crohn's disease, Crohn's disease and granulomatous enteritis, is an intestinal inflammatory disease of unknown cause that can occur in any part of the gastrointestinal tract, but

It mostly occurs in the terminal ileum and right colon.

Both inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and chronic non-specific ulcerative colitis are collectively referred to as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The clinical manifestations are abdominal pain, diarrhea, and intestinal obstruction. The course of the disease is protracted, recurring, and difficult to cure.

In this way, it seems that it is indeed more in line with the characteristics of Yu Sisi's condition.

However, one characteristic of Crohn's disease is that its onset is very slow and insidious, and it often takes months or even years from the onset of early symptoms to diagnosis.

And the clinical manifestations are not specific. Your doctor can't just suspect that it is Crohn's disease just because someone has abdominal pain and diarrhea, right?

Generally, a colonoscopy is required. If intestinal mucosal hyperplasia appears like cobblestones under the microscope, a tissue biopsy can be performed to diagnose Crohn's disease.

Therefore, the diagnosis of this disease relies heavily on colonoscopy. In China, only a few people like Chen Qi who can perform endoscopic colonoscopy dare to diagnose it.

The male doctors were chatting and discussing the condition outside. In the ward, Lan Lijuan underwent a colonoscopy, and the results also disappointed everyone.

No obvious abnormalities, no tumors, no enteritis, no Crohn's disease, nothing.

This is troublesome.

Gastroscopy and colonoscopy showed no abnormal symptoms, and all previous assumptions about the disease were overturned.

At this time, Professor Zhang Weizhong expressed a different opinion:

"The entire digestive tract is so long. A gastroscope can see the upper part of the digestive tract, and a colonoscope can see the lower part. The middle digestive tract (jejunum, ileum) cannot be seen. Is there something wrong here?"

Professor Tong sighed:

"The problem is that the middle part of the digestive tract cannot be examined, unless surgery is performed for diagnostic exploration, but the cost is too high. Even if there is no problem, the patient will have received such a knife in vain, and it will leave ugly scars.

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Chen Qi's eyes lit up as he sat there, thinking that you can't do anything, but I can.

If you want to see the middle section of the digestive tract, in addition to the traditional gastroscopy and enteroscopy, there is a special inspection method in later generations, which is "capsule endoscopy".

Capsule endoscopy actually shrinks the camera and implants it into a medical capsule to help doctors diagnose patients.

A small capsule is a camera studio for exploring the human body, and may even become a "ship" for traveling around the human body.

From the outside, it is not much different from ordinary capsule medicines, but it is a miniature camera used to peek into the health of the human gastrointestinal and esophageal areas.

After the patient swallows it, the capsule moves in the direction of digestion with the movement of gastrointestinal muscles, captures images, and then transmits the images to a data transmission device tied around the patient's waist.

The doctor then downloads the images taken by the capsule to the computer, and the capsule is automatically excreted from the body within 24 hours.

Moreover, using capsule endoscopy allows patients to maintain normal activities and life, which is very convenient.
Chapter completed!