New research has confirmed that balloon-assisted enteroscopy remains an effective diagnostic and therapeutic modality in patients with suspected small-bowel bleeding.
The retrospective analysis found that the approach yielded higher diagnostic and therapeutic rates in patients presenting with active overt gastrointestinal bleeding and in those who underwent balloon-assisted endoscopy within 30 days of overt gastrointestinal bleeding.
In a presentation at the 2022 Canadian Digestive Diseases Week,