Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The diagnostic yields of video capsule endoscopy and double-balloon enteroscopy for indications without bleeding ...

Background and Aim: Uncertainty remains about the best test to evaluate patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB). Previous meta-analyses demonstrated similar diagnostic yields with ...

Spiral enteroscopy, which has been used to evaluate abnormal results following capsule endoscopy, may be only moderately effective in its ability to locate pathology within the small bowel, according ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Overall technical success, diagnostic yield did not differ between motorized spiral enteroscopy and ...

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 ...

A large-scale data review by researchers in China of double balloon enteroscopy (DBE) over the last decade showed the endoscopic procedure to be safe and effective for detection of diseases of the ...

Although double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE) is useful for the diagnosis and management of patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding, the technique is fairly invasive, has several limitations, and ...

A comprehensive literature search was performed to identify all published articles that presented original data from a comparative study examining the combined use of both balloon assisted enteroscopy ...

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, ...