Clinical utility of wireless capsule endoscopy: experience with 200 cases.

Goals: To evaluate the indications and diagnoses made with 200 small bowel capsule endoscopies in an academic medical center.

Background: Wireless capsule endoscopy (PillCam SB) has recently become available as a new tool in the evaluation of patients with small bowel diseases. Its impact on patient care and usefulness in clinical practice has steadily been gaining ground, yet there are few studies that evaluate large numbers of patients.

The ten-year single-center experience with 6-mercaptopurine in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.

Goals: To report the 10-year experience of a single center in treating patients with refractory inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with relatively lower dose of 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP).

Study: The charts of 285 patients with IBD (Crohn's disease 160 and ulcerative colitis 125) receiving 6-MP were reviewed. Clinical response, subsequent breakthrough while taking 6-MP, and relapse rates when 6-MP was discontinued and side effects were assessed.