PWE-105 Is there a correlation between severity of bile acid malabsorption (BAM) and response to treatment?

Abstract

10 patients underwent a 3rd CE. In 7/10 patients with concordant initial CEs, the DY of repeat CE was 0/7. Where the 2 initial CEs disagreed, DY was 2/3. Conclusion 1. In patients with a negative or inconclusive initial CE for IDA or OGIB, repeating the procedure has an overall DY of 25% (7/28).The DY is highest when fresh blood was seen in the initial procedure (71.4%) even if no lesions were found initially.Patients with initially normal studies had lower DY (22.7%).3rd CE is only warranted by a change in presentation or discordance in the previous results, especially when one examination has identified active bleeding.