Gastrointestinal bleeding: capsules, balloons, and spirals!

References

• 1 Seewald S, Ang T L, Imazu H. et al . A standardized injection technique and regimen ensures success and safety of N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate injection for the treatment of gastric fundal varices (with videos).  Gastrointest Endosc. 2008;  68 447-454
• 2 Chey W D, Elta G H. Natural history of gastric varices.  Gastroenterology. 1993;  105 599-602
• 3 Tripathi D, Hayes P C. Endoscopic therapy for bleeding gastric varices: to clot or glue?.  Gastrointest Endosc. 2008;  68 883-886
• 4 Kitamoto M, Imamura M, Kamada K. et al . Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration of gastric varices with fundal hemorrhage.  AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2002;  178 1167-1174
• 5 Lo G H, Liang H L, Chen W C. et al . A prospective, randomized controlled trail of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt versus cyanoacrylate injection in the prevention of gastric variceal rebleeding.  Endoscopy. 2007;  39 679-685
• 6 Procaccini N J, Al-Osaimi A MS, Northup P. et al . Endoscopic cyanoacrylate versus transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt for gastric variceal bleeding: a single-center U.S. analysis.  Gastrointest Endosc. 2009;  70 881-887
• 7 Akerman P A, Agrawal D, Cantero D, Pangtay J. Spiral enteroscopy with the new DSB overtube: a novel technique for deep peroral small-bowel intubation.  Endoscopy. 2008;  40 974-978
• 8 Akerman P, Cantero D, Agrawal D. et al . Novel method of enteroscopy using EndoEase Discovery SB overtube.  Gastrointest Endosc. 2007;  65 AB125
• 9 Cantero D, Akerman P A, Pangtay J. Retrograde spiral enteroscopy using the Fujinon EN-450T5 and Olympus SIF-180 200 cm enteroscopes with the Discovery SB Overtube.  Gastrointest Endosc. 2009;  69 AB192
• 10 Buscaglia J M, Dunbar K B, Okolo 3rd  P I. et al . The spiral enteroscopy training initiative: results of a prospective study evaluating the Discovery SB overtube device during small bowel enteroscopy (with video).  Endoscopy. 2009;  41 194-199
• 11 Akerman P A, Cantero D. Severe Complications of Spiral Enteroscopy in the First 1750 Patients.  Gastrointest Endosc. 2009;  69 AB127
• 12 Schembre D, Ross A S. Yield of double balloon versus spiral enteroscopy for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding.  Gastrointest Endosc. 2009;  69 AB193
• 13 Valdastri P, Quaglia C, Susilo E. et al . Wireless therapeutic endoscopic capsule: in vivo experiment.  Endoscopy. 2008;  40 979-982
• 14 Rana S S, Bhasin D K. Gastrointestinal bleeding: from conventional to non conventional!.  Endoscopy. 2008;  40 40-44
• 15 Travis A C, Wasan S K, Saltzman J R. Model to predict rebleeding following endoscopic therapy for non-variceal upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage.  J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2008;  23 1505-1510
• 16 Rollhauser C, Fleischer D E. Nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding.  Endoscopy. 2002;  34 111-118
• 17 Saeed Z A, Winchester C B, Michaletz P A. et al . A scoring system to predict rebleeding after endoscopic therapy of nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage with a comparison of heat probe and ethanol injection.  Am J Gastroenterol. 1993;  88 1842-1849
• 18 Camellini L, Merighi A, Pagnini C. et al . Comparison of three different risk-scoring systems in nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding.  Dig Liver Dis. 2004;  36 271-277
• 19 Church N I, Dallal H J, Masson J. et al . Validity of the Rockall scoring system after endoscopic therapy for bleeding peptic ulcer: a prospective cohort study.  Gastrointest Endosc. 2006;  63 606-612
• 20 Andriulli A, Loperfido S, Focareta R. et al . High- versus low-dose proton pump inhibitors after endoscopic hemostasis in patients with peptic ulcer bleeding: a multicentre, randomized study.  Am J Gastroenterol. 2008;  103 3011-3018
• 21 Barkun A, Bardou M, Marshall J K. for the Nonvariceal Upper GI Bleeding Consensus Conference Group . Consensus recommendations for managing patients with Nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding.  Am Intern Med. 2003;  139 843-857
• 22 Lau J YW, Sung J JY, Lee K KC. et al . Effect of intravenous omeprazole on recurrent bleeding after endoscopic treatment of bleeding peptic ulcers.  N Engl J Med. 2000;  343 310-316
• 23 Udd M, Miettinen P, Palmu A. et al . Regular-dose versus high-dose omeprazole in peptic ulcer bleeding: A prospective randomized double-blind study.  Scand J Gastroenterol. 2001;  36 1332-1338
• 24 Schonekas H, Ahrens H, Pannewick U. et al . Comparison of two doses of intravenous pantoprazole in peptic ulcer bleeding.  Gastroenterology. 1999;  116 A305
• 25 Javid G, Zargar S A, U-Saif R. et al . Comparison of p. o. or i. v. proton pump inhibitors on 72-h intragastric pH in bleeding peptic ulcer.  J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2009;  24 1236-1243
• 26 Choi K D, Kim N, Jang I J. et al . Optimal dose of intravenous pantoprazole in patients with peptic ulcer bleeding requiring endoscopic hemostasis in Korea.  J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2009;  24 1617-1624