ArticleChinese medical journal2018
Effect of Double-Balloon Enteroscopy on Diagnosis and Treatment of Small-Bowel Diseases.
Article in Chinese medical journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05470946 (Evaluation of the Diagnostic Role of Enteroscopy in Small Intestinal Diseases at Al-Rajhi University Hospital), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Evaluation of the Diagnostic Role of Enteroscopy in Small Intestinal Diseases at Al-Rajhi University Hospital
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Performance and safety of single-balloon enteroscopy and double-balloon enteroscopy for small-bowel disorders in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Pooled it
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- [Clinical application of single-balloon and double-balloon enteroscopy in pediatric small bowel diseases: a retrospective study of 576 cases].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2025Article
- Diagnostic and Clinical Impact of Double-Balloon Enteroscopy in Small-Bowel Inflammatory Lesions: A Retrospective Cohort Study in a Turkish Population.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Characterization of primary small intestinal lymphoma: a retrospective study based on double balloon endoscopy.BMC gastroenterology · 2024Article
- Enterolith Treated with a Combination of Double-Balloon Endoscopy and Cola Dissolution Therapy.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Clinical Features and Management of Small Bowel Masses Detected During Device-Assisted Enteroscopy: A Multi-Center Experience.Gastroenterology research · 2022Article
- Video Capsule Endoscopy and Device-Assisted Enteroscopy.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2022Review
- Protein-losing enteropathy caused by a jejunal ulcer after an internal hernia in Petersen's space: A case report.World journal of clinical cases · 2022Article
- Diagnostic yield of esophagogastroduodenoscopy, colonoscopy, and small bowel endoscopy in Thai adults with chronic diarrhea.BMC gastroenterology · 2021Article
- Outcomes and safety of double-balloon enteroscopy in small bowel diseases: a single-center experience of 1531 procedures.Surgical endoscopy · 2021Article
- Roles of Capsule Endoscopy and Device-Assisted Enteroscopy in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Small-Bowel Tumors.Clinical endoscopy · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe diagnosis and treatment of small-bowel diseases is clinically difficult. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic and therapeutic value of double-balloon enteroscopy in small-bowel diseases.
methodsThe history and outcomes of 2806 patients who underwent double-balloon enteroscopy from July 2004 to April 2017 were reviewed, which included 562 patients with obscure digestive tract bleeding, 457 patients with obscure diarrhea, 930 patients with obscure abdominal pain, 795 patients with obscure weight loss, and 62 patients with obscure intestinal obstruction. Examinations were performed through the mouth and/or anus according to the clinical symptoms and abdominal images. If a lesion was not detected through one direction, examination through the other direction was performed as necessary. Eighty-four patients with small-bowel polyps, 26 with intestinal obstruction caused by enterolith, and 18 with bleeding from Dieulafoy's lesions in the small intestine were treated endoscopically.
resultsA total of 2806 patients underwent double-balloon enteroscopy, and no serious complications occurred. An endoscopic approach through both the mouth and anus was used in 212 patients. Lesions were detected in 1696 patients, with a detection rate of 60.4%; the rates for obscure digestive tract bleeding, diarrhea, abdominal pain, weight loss, and intestinal obstruction were 85.9% (483/562), 73.5% (336/457), 48.2% (448/930), 49.1% (390/795), and 62.9% (39/62), respectively. For patients with small-bowel polyps who underwent endoscopic therapy, no complications such as digestive tract bleeding and perforation occurred. Intestinal obstruction with enteroliths was relieved with endoscopic lithotripsy. Among the 18 patients with bleeding from small-bowel Dieulafoy's lesions, 14 patients were controlled with endoscopic hemostasis.
conclusionDouble-balloon enteroscopy is useful for diagnosing and treating some small-bowel disease.
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