MiVu™ Mucosal Integrity Testing System

Primary diagnostic tools used in practice today for suspected GERD include endoscopy and ambulatory reflux monitoring. These commonly used tools have significant limitations, resulting in many tested patients having a vague, questionable diagnosis that is not an effective guide for therapy. Esophageal mucosal injury detected by endoscopic evaluation is present in less than 30% of patients.ⁱCurrently available pH technology only measures the acidity of refluxed material at a single point along the esophagus. Furthermore, these tests fail to account for day-to-day variability of reflux, as they only provide a 24- to 48-hour snapshot of a disease process that is chronic in nature.ⁱⁱThus, current diagnostic testing in GERD is suboptimal and can have false-negative rates of nearly 30% in patients that have endoscopic esophagitis.^{iii iv}

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vii Dhyanesh A. Patel, Tina Higginbotham, James C. Slaughter, Muhammad Aslam, Elif Yuksel, David Katzka, C. Prakash Gyawali, Melina Mashi, John Pandolfino, and Michael F. Vaezi, Development and Validation of a Mucosal Impedance Contour Analysis System to Distinguish Esophageal Disorders, Gastroenterology 2019;156:1617–1626.

MiVu™ Mucosal Integrity Testing System is covered by one or more of the following patents: US9, 814, 408 and US10, 321, 867.