This study showed that endoscopic therapy was highly effective and safe, with an excellent long-term survival rate. The risk factors identified may help stratify patients who are at risk for recurrence and those requiring more intensified follow-up.
The modified Erlangen Endo-Trainer is useful for training in the push-and-pull enteroscopy technique. The new specially developed method of measuring the depth of insertion during push-and-pull enteroscopy seems to be valid.
Endoscopic therapeutic interventions can be performed safely even in the more difficult conditions of the small bowel in the majority of patients. Polypectomy of large polyps appears to be the procedure associated with the highest risk.
This prospective analysis shows that PPE is safe and has a high diagnostic and therapeutic yield in patients with suspected or known small-bowel disease.
This new enteroscopy system is easy to handle and seems to be safe. Visualization of the whole small bowel is possible using both the oral and anal approaches. Enteroscopy with the double-balloon technique promises to become a standard method for diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy of the small bowel without surgical laparotomy.
For endoscopic examination of the small bowel in patients with suspected mid-gastrointestinal bleeding, PPE is superior to PE with regard to the length of small bowel visualized, as well as the diagnostic yield. As the method also allows endoscopic treatment to be carried out, PPE should always be considered before open surgery and intraoperative endoscopy in patients with mid-gastrointestinal bleeding.
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