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Small Bowel Bleeding: Updated Algorithm and Outcomes.

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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… Click to show full 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.

Keywords: small bowel; algorithm outcomes; bowel bleeding; bleeding updated; updated algorithm

Journal Title: Gastrointestinal endoscopy clinics of North America
Year Published: 2017

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