Year 2020 / Volume 112 / Number 4
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The rebleeding rate in patients evaluated for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding after negative small bowel findings by device assisted enteroscopy

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2020.6833/2019

Catarina Gomes, José María Rubio Mateos, Rolando Taveira Pinho, Ana Ponte, Adélia Rodrigues, Margarita Fosado Gayosso, Pilar Esteban Delgado, João Carlos Silva, Edgar Afecto, João Carvalho,

Abstract
Background: data on the long-term outcome of patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB) with positive small bowel findings in capsule endoscopy but negative small bowel findings in device-assisted enteroscopy are scarce. Objective: this study aimed to evaluate the rebleeding rate and time to rebleed in patients with no small bowel findings in enteroscopy, after a positive capsule endoscopy in the setting of OGIB. Baseline predictors for rebleeding were assessed. Methods: a retrospective double-center study was performed, including patients with OGIB with positive findings by capsule endoscopy and negative small bowel findings by enteroscopy. Results: thirty-five patients were included. Rebleeding occurred in 40 % of patients during a median follow-up of 27 months. Further evaluation in patients with a rebleed was performed in 85.7 %, leading to a final diagnosis in 78.6 %. The rebleeding rate increased progressively over time, from 17.2 % at one month to 54.4 % at four years. Overt bleeding at the time of the first episode was a predictor of rebleeding (p = 0.03) according to the multivariate analysis. This was 50 % at one year compared with 21.8 % in patients with occult bleeding on admission. Conclusions: in obscure gastrointestinal bleeding, long-term follow-up and further evaluation may be considered after a positive capsule endoscopy. Even if there are no small bowel findings by device-assisted enteroscopy. The rebleeding rate in our study was 40 %, mainly in the presence of an overt bleeding on admission.
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Received: 18/12/2019

Accepted: 01/03/2020

Online First: 23/03/2020

Published: 07/04/2020

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