Patients

Waiting days or weeks to hear the laboratory results of a biopsy after an endoscopy or bronchospy procedure can be incredibly stressful and agonizing. Ideally, you want your physician to be able to diagnose or rule out a problem during a diagnostic exam – and then treat the problem as fast as possible without the need to come back for a separate procedure.

Unfortunately, that wasn’t always possible with traditional endoscopic imaging technologies. During the procedure, cancerous and pre-cancerous tissue is often indistinguishable from benign tissue unless viewed at the cellular level.

Mauna Kea Technologies has spent over a decade developing the world’s first and only tiny, flexible fiber optic microscope, Cellvizio®.

This probe-based Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy system (pCLE) allows doctors to view tissue inside the body at the cellular level during any endoscopy procedure.

Find out more about how Cellvizio can help physicians in their diagnosis and treatment
by watching this Medical Minute video

What do physicians say about Cellvizio

More than 300 physicians around the world are using Cellvizio to improve their ability to diagnose and treat their patients in the best conditions. Watch some of the most expert physicians worldwide talk about pCLE and how it changed their practice in our testimonials section. 

Dozens of testimonials can also be found in newspapers and TV websites on the internet, as shown in our  Live News section. For instance, this is what Dr Michel Kahaleh, Director, Pancreatico-Biliary Services and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Virginia Health System, says about pCLE : 

“Until now, if we found suspicious tissue during one of these diagnostic procedures, we often had to randomly sample it and send it to the laboratory for analysis, which can take up to a week. With pCLE, we can pinpoint the dangerous tissue during the initial diagnostic procedure and remove or treat it the same day.” (full article here)

Leading physicians and more than 100 medical facilities around the world have been using Cellvizio® in the past few years to improve patient care in over ten thousand endoscopy procedures. See our Physician Locator on this page to find a Cellvizio expert near you.  

Visit our different sections on Barrett's Esophagus, Bilio-pancreatic stricture and Colorectal Lesions to know more about the pathology and how Cellvizio can help your physician to diagnose and treat your condition.