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SOURCES: This Video is from the WebMD Video Archive. 2008 Medical Reference from Medstar Television. American College of Gastroenterology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
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Stick hitting ball.
Bernard Fedi is happy his health is no longer behind the eight-ball.
I'm relieved. I am really relieved.
For months, he felt weak. He had bouts where he lost large amounts of blood.
They scoped me, couldn't find nothing. Scoped me the other way, couldn't find nothing.
Even the high-tech pill camera came up blank. It wasn't until Bernie had a new test called double balloon enteroscopy, or DBE, that doctors finally spotted a tumor deep in his small intestine.
For anybody who's ever had a standard upper endoscopy or a colonscopy to look for colorectal cancer or polyps, it's done in a similar fashion.
There are differences. In DBE, doctors can thread the scope down through the mouth or up through the colon. And it comes equipped with two balloons.
The purpose of the balloons is to help anchor the endoscope and the overtube to the intestine so that we can achieve distances that were previously unachievable.
The technology allows doctors to inch their way into the small intestine, which, stretched out, can be up to 22-feet long.
The piece that double balloon enteroscopy brings together is the ability to visualize most, if not all of the small intestine, but also to be able to do interventions.
Bernie says after his ordeal, the double-balloon procedure was a godsend.
I mean, without that procedure at Fox believe me, they'd have never found it. I'd have probably just passed on.
Instead, he lived to tell the tale. For WebMD, I'm Damon Meharg.
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