Recent advances in the endoscopic diagnosis and therapy of upper gastrointestinal, small intestinal, and colonic bleeding.
Endoscopy has become the first and primary diagnostic and therapeutic modality in the management of patients with severe gastrointestinal bleeding. Panendoscopy, push enteroscopy, and colonoscopy provide the diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic elements to improve patient outcomes and to reduce morbidity and mortality from severe GI hemorrhage. Recent improvements in endoscopic hemostatic techniques and in imaging modalities using wireless capsule endoscopy suggest that diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy will be even more important in determining patient outcomes in the future.
Kovacs
Thomas O G
TO
Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, School of Medicine, CURE Digestive Diseases Research Center, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA. tkovacs@mednet.ucla.edu
Jensen
Dennis M
DM
D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000002:abnormalities; D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D016558:Hemostasis, Endoscopic / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000098:blood supply; D010438:Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D015911:Sclerotherapy