Fifty-five patients (25 women; mean age = 65.6 years; range: 28—82 years) were examined with push enteroscopy for investigation of obscure GI bleeding of an occult-obscure ( n = 34) and overt-obscure ...

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, ...

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 ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am having a “push endoscope,” or forced endoscope, tomorrow. They said they found a lesion in a CT scan and want to look into it further. Is “lesion” a fancy name for cancer? — B.E.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...