Diagnostic yield and clinical impact of capsule endoscopy in obscure gastrointestinal bleeding during routine clinical practice: A single-center experience

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 60-65

  Katsinelos, Panagiotis ^a   Chatzimavroudis, Grigoris ^a   Terzoudis, Sotiris ^a   Patsis, Ioannis ^a   Fasoulas, Kostas ^a   Katsinelos, Taxiarchis ^a   Kokonis, George ^a   Zavos, Christos ^b   Vasiliadis, Themistoklis ^a   Kountouras, Jannis ^b  

^a G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Capsule endoscopy; Clinical impact; Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; COLCHICINE; IRON; MISOPROSTOL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFIBRINOGENEMIA; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANEMIA; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CELIAC DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTEROPATHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GLUTEN FREE DIET; HUMAN; INTESTINE DIVERTICULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650463843     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000322071     Document Type: Article

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