Use of Advanced Modalities Does Not Guarantee Early Detection of Small-Bowel Crohn's Disease in the Absence of Complications.

CONCLUSIONS Early detection of SB CD without complications remains difficult even if advanced modalities are introduced. Our hypothesis is that the fecal occult blood test and routine blood test should be administered to patients with abdominal pain or gastrointestinal manifestations. Once the patients are found to have GI bleeding or anemia, they would be further examined according to the guideline and SBCE would be used in the early stage of SB CD. PMID: 31738744 [PubMed - in process]
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