A randomized trial comparing wireless capsule endoscopy with push enteroscopy for the detection of small-bowel lesions.

TL;DR: CE is an effective diagnostic tool for patients with obscure GI bleeding and if done early in the course of the workup, CE could shorten considerably the time to diagnosis, lead to definitive treatment in a relevant proportion of patients, and spare a number of alternative investigations with low diagnostic yield.

TL;DR: Double-balloon endoscopy permits the exploration of the small intestine with a high success rate of total enteroscopy, the procedure is safe and useful, and it provides high diagnostic yields and therapeutic capabilities.

TL;DR: The term small bowel bleeding is proposed as a replacement for the previous classification of obscure GI bleeding (OGIB), and it is recommended that the term OGIB should be reserved for patients in whom a source of bleeding cannot be identified anywhere in the GI tract.

TL;DR: This literature review and the recommendations therein were prepared for the AGA Institute Clinical Practice and Economics Committee and were approved by the Committee on March 12, 2007 and by the AGA institute Governing Board on May 19, 2007.

TL;DR: Angiodysplasia is an important vascular lesion of the gut and a source of significant morbidity from bleeding, which has been purported to occur with higher frequency in patients with renal failure, von Willebrand's disease, aortic stenosis, cirrhosis, and pulmonary disease.

TL;DR: Small bowel enteroscopy has considerable potential in the investigation of undiagnosed gastrointestinal blood loss and deserves more widespread application.

TL;DR: Small bowel enteroscopy is a useful tool in patients with chronic gastrointestinal bleeding of obscure origin and can be considered when standard invasive and noninvasive modalities have failed to diagnose a site of bleeding.

TL;DR: The patient's general condition showed improvement, but extension of the pelvic mass was noted; subsequently the upper limit of this mass was defined at the level of the umbilicus, and it was clear that no more could be expected from antibiotic therapy.