Su1398 CLINICAL UTILITY OF BALLOON ASSISTED ENTEROSCOPY TO EVALUATE DEEP SMALL BOWEL LESIONS OF CROHN'S DISEASE

Small bowel lesions of Crohn ’s disease (CD) are known to be associated with a poor prognosis, and endoscopic healing leads to favorable patients outcome. The aim of this study was to clarify the importance of assessing not only the lesions at the terminal ileum (TI) but deep small bowel lesions (DSB) by using balloon- assist ed enteroscopy on CD.

Source: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - May 31, 2019 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Kaoru Takabayashi, Naoki Hosoe, Motohiko Kato, Yukie Hayashi, Ryoichi Miyanaga, Shinya Sugimoto, Kosaku Nanki, Kayoko Kimura, Yohei Mikami, Shinta Mizuno, Makoto Mutaguchi, Tomohisa Sujino, Makoto Naganuma, Haruhiko Ogata, Takanori Kanai Tags: Sunday abstract Source Type: research