Table 5.
Clinical suspicion | Conventional test sensitivity | Wireless motility capsule findings |
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Capsule sensitivity in target region | Capsule specificity in target region | Abnormal transit in other regions | ||
Suspected gastric emptying delay | 17/44 (38.6%) | 24/52 (46.2%) | 19/28 (67.9%) | Small intestine: 10/49 (20.4%) Colon: 25/47 (53.2%) |
Suspected small intestinal transit delay | 4/6 (66.7%) | 1/11 (9.1%) | 54/64 (84.4%) | Stomach: 5/13 (38.5%) Colon: 4/10 (40%) |
Suspected colonic transit delay | 9/16 (56.2%) | 32/55 (58.2%) | 11/18 (61.1%) | Stomach: 25/60 (41.7%) Small intestine: 8/56 (14.3%) |
Adapted from Kuo et al. [2011].