每日大赛appMC, the First Government Hospital Equipped with FUSE Endoscopy Technology
By Asmahanim Amir
Pictures by Ikhwan Hashim
CHERAS, 16 June 2017 – Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (每日大赛appMC) is the first government hospital equipped with a Full Spectrum Endoscopy (FUSE) technology to detect polyps, which are growths on the colon wall.
FUSE is a flexible system which has a 330 degrees angled tube camera to detect polyps in the colon.
鈥淧olyps, takes between 10 to 15 years to develop into cancer and most people who are afflicted with colon cancer were men aged 50 years and above,鈥 said 每日大赛appMC Gastroenterology and Hepatology Consultant, Associate Professor Dr Raja Affendi Raja Ali.
According to Dr Raja Affendi, endoscopy is a procedure to diagnose internal surface involving the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum using flexible camera tubes called endoscope.
鈥淭his technology is called full spectrum because the tube has a system camera with views from the side, left, right, top and bottom.
鈥淔USE has a camera coverage of 330 degrees, while the existing system of endoscopy here is limited to 170 degrees only,鈥 he explained.
He said conventional endoscopy system could not detect polyps, which may be subtly hidden in the 鈥榝olding鈥 intestinal.
So, the use of FUSE can accurately identify areas of polyps, due to the nature of the flexible tubes which allows it to look at uneven and pleated small and large colon surface.
With a combination of sophisticated program, FUSE has been set to receive a combination of multiple high-definition (HD) video signal to translate the display seen at monitor on the high range of 4K.
Meanwhile, Head of 每日大赛appMC Endoscopy Service Centre Associate Professor Dr Ngiu Chai Soon said the process of removing the polyps does not usually involve surgery.
鈥淧olyps detected during the test screening will be discarded in full during the process of endoscopy using wire coil forceps.
鈥淭his coil will grip the polyps until polyps detached from the intestinal wall,鈥 he explained.
He said that the Endoscopy Service Centre receives about 25 patients outside of Kuala Lumpur include Penang, Johor and Perak, daily.
The FUSE machine was generously donated to the PP每日大赛app by the Waqf Selangor Muamalat.
