title: Non-small-bowel lesions encountered during double-balloon enteroscopy performed for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the incidence of non-small-bowel bleeding pathologies encountered during double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE) procedures and to analyse their significance.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective study of a prospective DBE database conducted in a tertiary-referral center was conducted. A total of 179 patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB) referred for DBE from June 2004 to November 2008 were analysed looking for the incidence of non-small-bowel lesions (NSBLs; all and newly diagnosed) encountered during DBE.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were 228 (150 antegrade and 78 retrograde) DBE procedures performed in 179 patients. The mean number of DBE procedures was 1.27 per patient. The mean age (SD) of the patients was 62 +/- 16 years old. There were 94 females (52.5%). The positive yield for a bleeding lesion was 65.9%. Of the 179 patients, 44 (24.6%) had NSBLs (19 of them had dual pathology with small-bowel lesions and NSBLs); 27 (15.1%) had lesions not detected by previous endoscopies. The most common type of missed lesions were vascular lesions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A significant proportion of patients (24.6%) had lesions within reach of conventional endoscopy. Careful repeat examination with gastroscopy and colonoscopy might be required.
authors.affiliation: A W Morrow Gastroenterology and Liver Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown Rd, Sydney 2050, Australia.
authors.forename: Hoi-Poh
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Tee
authors.forename: Arthur J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Kaffes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002404:Catheterization / Q000379:methods; D015331:Cohort Studies; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012189:Retrospective Studies
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