Single Balloon Enterosocpy Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding Bleed

Completed

Conditions studied: Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding

In brief

The goal of the present study is to investigate the clinical outcomes of patients with gastrointestinal bleeding originating from the small intestine following diagnostic investigation with single balloon enteroscopy. We hypothesize that single balloon enteroscopy can arrive at a diagnosis and provide therapeutics in a majority of patients with gastrointestinal bleeding originating in the small intestine.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01625585

Run by

Washington University School of Medicine

People needed

147

Starts

2011-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-10-16

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients with Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding undergoing SBE at Barnes Jewish Hospital

You may not qualify if…

• Less than 3 months of follow up after SBE
• The endoscope could not be advanced into the duodenum will be excluded.

Where it is running

• Barnes Jewish Hospital/ Washington University — St Louis, Missouri, United States

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