New endoscopy capsule

Since June 2007, served in the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy General Hospital Regional 1 "Dr. Carlos Sanchez Navarro Mac Gregor" is a technology that seems to have emerged from a science fiction novel. This is a capsule endoscopy used to examine the small intestine, which measures 6.4 meters and is inaccessible by any other endoscopic technique. The capsule, with a small camera, you can get more than 50 000 images in eight hours after the patient swallowed with the help of a little water. Dr. Clara Luz Martinez Garcia, Chief of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy at the hospital, said that with the use of this technology, the IMSS is placed at the forefront.