ArticleGE Portuguese journal of gastroenterology2020
Diagnostic Yield of Endoscopic Procedures in Children: Experience of a Portuguese Center.
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- Carbon Dioxide vs. Air Insufflation for Pediatric Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Pooled it
- Establish and validate a clinical predictive model for pediatric gastrointestinal endoscopy.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Factors Related to Abnormal Endoscopic and Histologic Findings on Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in Children.Pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology & nutrition · 2025Article
- Which Alarm Symptoms Are Associated With Abnormal Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Among Thai Children?Pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology & nutrition · 2024Article
- Indications and Yield of Pediatric Endoscopy in Bahrain: A Tertiary Center Experience.International journal of pediatrics · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundOver the last decades, the use of gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopic procedures has been increased in children worldwide, allowing the early diagnosis and therapeutic intervention in multiple GI diseases. AIMS AND
methodsIn order to evaluate the appropriateness and the diagnostic yield of initial GI endoscopic techniques in children in a Portuguese tertiary hospital, we performed a retrospective cohort study during a 12-month period.
resultsA total of 308 procedures were performed in 276 patients; the median age was 11 years and 50.4% were males. Esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy (EGD) corresponded to 81.8% of the procedures and ileo-colonoscopy (IC) to the remaining; 11.6% of the patients underwent both EGD and IC. Overall, 51.3% of the exams showed abnormal macroscopic findings, and 69.6% showed histopathological signs of disease, with IC showing significantly more positive results than EGD ( DISCUSSION: Our results emphasize the importance of endoscopic procedures, especially IC, in the diagnosis of GI diseases in pediatric patients, as well as the careful choice of the endoscopic techniques in those with less specific symptoms, as chronic abdominal pain. In this particular situation, given the proportion of cases that may be due to functional disease, good characterization of the clinical context is needed, and endoscopy should be reserved for a second-line approach.
conclusionIt is important to monitor and examine the endoscopic techniques as an index of quality criteria for clinical practice.
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