The SpACE Study - Small Bowel Crohn's Disease and Spondyloarthropathies

"Capsule endoscopy is a procedure that uses a tiny wireless camera to take pictures of your digestive tract. A capsule endoscopy camera sits inside a vitamin-size capsule you swallow. As the capsule travels through your digestive tract, the camera takes thousands of pictures that are transmitted to a recorder you wear on a belt around your waist.~Capsule endoscopy helps doctors see inside your small intestine - an area that isn't easily reached with more-traditional endoscopy procedures."

Colonoscopy is a test that allows your doctor to look at the inner lining of your large intestine (rectum and colon). He or she uses a thin, flexible tube called a colonoscope to look at the colon.

This test combines serologic, genetic, and inflammation markers in a proprietary Smart Diagnostic Algorithm to provide added IBD diagnostic clarity. This test helps physicians differentiate IBD vs. non-IBD and CD vs. UC in one comprehensive blood test.

A stool test to measure inflammation in the gut.