Gastrointestinal Bleeding

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• 93 Charbonnet P, Toman J, Gervaz P. et al . Severe lower GI bleeding in a Western population: right-sided colonic diverticular disease is the most common etiology for positive angiography [abstract].  Gastroenterology. 2005;  128 (Suppl 2) A797
• 94 Vijayan B, Armour D, Fraser A. et al . The impact of aspirin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and warfarin on acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding: ten year study from a dedicated bleeding unit [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB84
• 95 Vijayan B, Armour D, Fraser A. et al . Ten year study of acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding in the north east of Scotland [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB85
• 96 Saperas E, Adet A, Feu F. et al . Incidence and risk factors for recurrence of acute lower intestinal hemorrhage [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB85
• 97 Arasaradnam R, Gopal S, Skelly M. et al . Polyp prevalence in a cohort of 1445 patients with isolated rectal bleeding (IRB): what are we missing with just flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS)? [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB247
• 98 Tsikitis V L, Herzig D O, Akerman P A. et al . Colonoscopic findings in patients age 40 - 49 presenting with hematochezia or occult blood (OB) positive stool [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB253
• 99 Kim H S, Kim W H, Kim T I. et al . Predictors of immediate post-polypectomy bleeding of colon: a prospective multicenter study [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB255
• 100 Nguyen C C, Dionisio P, Crowell M D. et al . The utility of second look colonoscopy in the setting of new or recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding: a predictive model [abstract].  Gastroenterology. 2005;  128 (Suppl 2) A284
• 101 dal Monte P P, Tagariello C, Sarago M. et al . No pain no gain: it is true? nonexcisional surgery for the treatment of haemorrhoidal disease [abstract].  Gastroenterology. 2005;  128 (Suppl 2) A329
• 102 Strate L, Syngal S. Early colonoscopy and hospital length of stay in acute lower intestinal bleeding: a nationwide study [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB84
• 103 Cazemier M, Felt-Bersma R J, Cuesta M A. et al . Elastic band ligation of hemorrhoids: flexible endoscope versus rigid proctoscope [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB85
• 104 Weiss A, Chung H, Paltiel C. et al . A comparison of argon plasma coagulation (APC) and KTP laser in the treatment of chronic radiation proctopathy [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB157
• 105 Armstrong D, Gaw J U, Johnson E. Combined colonoscopy and multiple hemorrhoidal ligation: prospective evaluation of 200 cases [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB226
• 106 Horiuchi A, Nakayama Y. Urgent colonoscopy for the diagnosis and treatment of severe lower GI bleeding and acute colorectal obstruction [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB254
• 107 Lee W S, Park C H, Joo Y E. et al . Successful endoscopic management of bleeding from colonic Dieulafoy lesion: a case review of six years’ experience [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB259
• 108 Fuerst F, Niv Y, Niv G. et al . Capsule endoscopy: experience of 779 consecutive examinations [abstract].  Gastroenterology. 2005;  128 (Suppl 2) A647-A648
• 109 Iyngkaran G, Schoeman M, Nguyen N. et al . Impact of capsule endoscopy on demand and diagnostic yield of push enteroscopy [abstract].  Gastroenterology. 2005;  128 (Suppl 2) A648
• 110 Pittman R H, Legnani P, Kornbluth A. et al . The value of capsule endoscopy (CE) in the evaluation of obscure GI bleeding (OGIB) in patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) [abstract].  Gastroenterology. 2005;  128 (Suppl 2) A648
• 111 Raza M, Bernstein C N. The usefulness and impact on management of positive and negative capsule endoscopy [abstract].  Gastroenterology. 2005;  128 (Suppl 2) A648
• 112 Schenk G, Matthes H, Jeschke E. et al . Therapeutic yield of wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) in small bowel diseases a two-center follow-up study [abstract].  Gastroenterology. 2005;  128 (Suppl 2) A648-A649
• 113 Dobozi B, Lin S, Patel K. et al . The clinical utility of wireless capsule endoscopy in patients with cirrhosis, varices and anemia [abstract].  Gastroenterology. 2005;  128 (Suppl 2) A733
• 114 Haghighi D, Zuccaro G, Vargo J. et al . Comparison of capsule endoscopy (CE) findings of healthy subjects (HS) to an obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB) patient population [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB104
• 115 Repici A, Pennazio M, Ottobrelli A. et al . Capsule endoscopy in cirrhotic patients: prevalence and spectrum of small bowel lesions [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB158
• 116 Langelier J, Cave D R. Diagnostic yield of video capsule endoscopy for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding: an evaluation of sequential cohorts [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB161
• 117 Choi M G, Lee I S, Kim K J. et al . Multicenter retrospective evaluation of capsule endoscopy in obscure overt gastrointestinal bleeding in Korea [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB161
• 118 Delvaux M, Laurent V, Klopp I. et al . Intestinal tumors: frequently revealed by an obscure digestive bleeding (ODB) and more easily diagnosed by capsule endoscopy (VCE) [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB162
• 119 Elijah D, Daas A, Brady P. Capsule endoscopy for obscure GI bleeding yields a high incidence of significant treatable lesions within reach of standard upper endoscopy [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB163
• 120 Favre O, Daudet J, Jacob P. Clinical outcome of 41 patients with angiodysplasias of the small intestine visualized by capsule endoscopy: 11 months follow up [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB164
• 121 Nath S K, Raju G S. Capsule endoscopic diagnosis of extra-intestinal bleeding [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB179
• 122 Schmidt H, Hartmann D, Kinzel F. et al . Capsule endoscopy followed by intraoperative enteroscopy and therapy in patients with chronic gastrointestinal bleeding: long term results of a prospective controlled multicentric trial [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB181
• 123 Shapira S, Enns R, Yu E. Earlier implementation of capsule endoscopy for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding decreases resource utilization [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB181
• 124 Shapira S, Enns R, Yu E. Capsule endoscopy: is there value of a negative study? [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2005;  61 AB181
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