Aetiological diagnosis in 313 patients undergoing single or two way push videoenteroscopy
| Unexplained anaemia | Complementary investigation after SBBFT | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| With macroscopic bleeding (n=22) | With occult bleeding (n=26) | Normal (n=17) | Abnormal | ||||||||||
| Jejumun (n=9; 41%) | Ileum (n=3; 14%) | Jejumun (n=12; 46%) | Ileum (n=6; 23%) | Jejumun (n=9; 53%) | Ileum (n=4; 24%) | Diffuse (n=4; 24%) | Jejumun (n=7; 26%) | Ileum (n=17; 63%) | Diffuse (n=3; 11%) | ||||
| Tumour | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | |||
| Arteriovenous malformation | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Crohn’s disease | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | |||
| NSAID associated lesions | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||
| Lymphangiectasia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Diverticulum | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Miscellaneous | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |||
| Gastroduodenal or colonic lesions | 10 (46%) | 8 (31%) | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
NSAID, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug.