title: Capsule endoscopy in clinical practice: four years of experience from a single center.
abstract: Capsule endoscopy is a diagnostic method of increasing use nowadays, with various applications such as, evaluation of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding, chronic diarrhea and anemia. The experience of 4 years is reported in a retrospective review of 109 medical records to determine the main indications and the most common diagnostic findings and the percentage of positive studies. The main indications were obscure bleeding in 65%, chronic anemia in 8%. Vascular lesions in 33%, being that, hematocistic spot was found in 53% of studies. The location of active bleeding was possible in five patients (4.5%). Capsule endoscopy shows a high diagnostic yield in obscure bleeding.
authors.affiliation: Gastroendo Endoscopia Especializada, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. guspignaton@gmail.com
authors.forename: Gustavo Pignaton de
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Freitas
authors.forename: Newton
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Teixeira
authors.forename: Gregorio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Feldman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000740:Anemia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D053704:Capsule Endoscopy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009780:Occult Blood; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult