Introduction: Although enteroscopy has been increasingly used to investigate occult or obscure bleeding, little is known about its impact on patient management. The aim of the present paper was to ...
STANFORD, Calif., Nov. 26 -- For patients with difficult-to-detect gastrointestinal bleeding, an initial double-balloon enteroscopy is a cost-effective approach for diagnosis and treatment, ...
Is double balloon enteroscopy the best initial imaging method for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding?
You have full access to this article via your institution. So where should clinicians place DBE in the management algorithm of patients with OGIB? A cost-benefit analysis examined potential strategies ...
The small bowel is difficult to visualize owing to its inaccessibility; the diagnosis and treatment of small-bowel diseases is, therefore, difficult. Double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE) has been ...
J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2005;20(5):716-721. The mortality from the present series was small (5%) and none of the deaths was related to GI bleeding or complications of push enteroscopy. The procedure ...
A cost-effectiveness analysis shows that an initial double-balloon enteroscopy is a cost-effective approach for patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding. However, capsule-directed DBE, which is ...
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