What is a double balloon Colonoscopy?

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   The twice balloon colonoscopy permits medical practitioners to use expertise to analyze more localities interior the body without requiring to manage surgery. The method is utilised for situation for example gastrointestinal bleeding, foreign body exclusion and polyposis syndrome.
   Colonoscopy vs. Double Balloon Colonoscopy
   A customary colonoscopy values a colonscope with a "long, slim, flexible tube with a miniature video camera and lightweight at its end," but can only come to choose components of the colon, which is the last part of the gastrointestinal tract; as asserted by the twice balloon expertise values an endoscope
   Specifications
   The twice balloon expertise "allows physicians to present both diagnostic and therapeutic methods inside the little bowel without open surgery," as asserted by the California Pacific Medical Center. Doctors use an endoscope with a balloon "attached to the distal end of the scope and the other adhered to a clear tube skidding over the endoscope," as asserted by CPMC.
   The procedure
   The twice balloon endoscope permits medical practitioners to reexamine the 25 feet of little intestine. When inflated the balloons can "grip parts of the little intestine and 'shorten' the little intestine by pleating it over the endoscope," as asserted by the CDMC. Doing this frequently permits the endoscope to proceed through and analyze the whole little intestine.
   Development
   The twice balloon expertise was presented by Japanese based-Fujion Inc. and accepted by the Federal Drug Administration in 2004.

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