Vizballoons

A 62-year-old female with a history of uncontrolled hypertension, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease was seen at an outpatient facility for screening colonoscopy. On review of systems, she denied abdominal pain, nausea or vomiting, change in bowel habits, or weight changes. She mentioned a family history of colorectal cancer in her paternal grandmother, though we … Read more

Prepared by: ASGE Technology Committee, Arvind J. Trindade, MD, David R. Lichtenstein, MD, FASGE, Harry R. Aslanian, MD, FASGE, Manoop S. Bhutani, MD, FASGE, Adam Goodman, MD, FASGE, Joshua Melson, MD, Udayakumar Navaneethan, MD, Rahul Pannala, MD, MPH, FASGE, Mansour A. Parsi, MD, FASGE, Amrita Sethi, MD, FASGE, Shelby Sullivan, MD, Nirav Thosani, MD, Guru … Read more

Practical Gastroenterology is excited to bring you this special supplement featuring abstract highlights and author insights from the American College of Gastroenterology’s 2014 Annual Scientific Meeting. Among the inflammatory bowel disease-related abstracts, we include those which focus on pregnancy, quality of life issues, treatment options and the importance of colonoscopy surveillance. The abstract highlights and … Read more

WEST CALDWELL TWP.—According to local inventor and doctor Boris Reydel, colonoscopies just got a whole lot less uncomfortable. Reydel has pioneered the Vizballoon, a strikingly simple balloon shaped device attached to the end of a colonoscope that independent research has found reduces discomfort very significantly, in addition to other benefits, and ”could become a future … Read more

The innovative Vizballoons™ are designed to provide the safest and most comfortable / painless solution for GI practitioners that seek to enhance their existing technology to deliver superior medical results for their patients. Simple and economical to use, our revolutionary, proprietary, single-use device gives you the ability to manage your block time in the endo … Read more