title: Small Bowel Bleeding: Updated Algorithm and Outcomes.
abstract: Patients previously classified with "obscure gastrointestinal hemorrhage" should now be classified as "suspected small bowel bleeding" according to the 2015 American College of Gastroenterology guidelines. This article provides algorithms for how to manage patients with suspected small bowel bleeding, including utilization of second-look endoscopy and/or colonoscopy, video capsule endoscopy, computed tomographic enterography, magnetic resonance enterography, angiography, and deep enteroscopy.
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, California Pacific Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, 2340 Clay Street, 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA. Electronic address: lgersonmd@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Lauren B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Gerson
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods; D019468:Disease Management; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / Q000379:methods*; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D024162:Second-Look Surgery / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods
keywords: Angiography; Deep enteroscopy; Obscure GI bleeding; Suspected small bowel hemorrhage; Video capsule endoscopy