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Given Imaging Ltd. (NASDAQ: GIVN) today announced data from a pilot study that demonstrate the Company's PillCamĀ® capsule endoscopy of the esophagus can significantly reduce health care costs in a prison population through on-site evaluation of esophageal varices in cirrhotic patients.
In Part I of this topic we covered the anatomy and physiology of venous circulation and stressed the fact that in the veins the blood flows in only one direction: toward the heart and lungs. The force necessary for that upward flow is the heart contraction and is aided by the pumping action of our calf muscles when we walk. The presence of one-way valves in our leg veins prevent backflow of the ...
Given Imaging Ltd. today announced data from a pilot study that demonstrate the Company's PillCamĀ® capsule endoscopy of the esophagus can significantly reduce health care costs in a prison population through on-site evaluation of esophageal varices in cirrhotic patients. Results were presented at Poster Session II (Abstract # P-648) of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of ...
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