obscure gastrointestinal (gi) bleeding is defined when the source of gi bleeding could not be determined by upper endoscopy, colonoscopy or barium small bowel transit. in this report, a 41 year-old man presented with a history of over ten recurrent episodes of melena since four years prior to admission. the source of bleeding was not detected by multiple upper and lower gi endoscopies. during t...

We present a case of obscure gastro-intestinal bleeding due to small bowel angiodysplasia in a 68-year-old woman with severe aortic valve stenosis. The diagnosis was confirmed and subsequently managed using single-balloon enteroscopy.

Elderly (>65 years) Middle‐Aged (41‐65 years) Young Adult (17‐40 years) Vascular anomalies Small intestinal ulcer NSAID enteropathy Small intestinal tumours Non‐specific enteritis Vascular anomalies Small intestinal tumours Non‐specific enteritis Small intestinal ulcer Crohn’s disease Small intestinal tumours Meckel’s diverticulum Non‐specific enteritis Dieulafoy’s lesion Vascular anomalies Tab...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the use of wireless capsule endoscopy in Chinese patients. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING University teaching hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Twenty-eight patients who had undergone wireless capsule endoscopy between December 2002 and December 2003. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Diagnoses according to findings of capsule endoscopy and complications from the procedure...

The author offers a resumé of capsule endoscopy as a diagnostic modality in the gastro-intestinal tract. Capsule endoscopy (CE) was first described in 2000 and is possibly one of the most important advances in gastro-intestinal diagnostics, since the introduction of endoscopy as a diagnostic modality. The swallowed pill camera shows images, as it is propagated through the gastro-intestinal trac...

The small intestine is an uncommon site of gastro-intestinal (GI) bleeding; however it is the commonest cause of obscure GI bleeding. It may require multiple blood transfusions, diagnostic procedures and repeated hospitalizations. Angiodysplasia is the commonest cause of obscure GI bleeding, particularly in the elderly. Inflammatory lesions and tumours are the usual causes of small intestinal b...

BACKGROUND This study describes the burden of bleeding oesophageal varices at the main tertiary referral centre in Accra. DESIGN Retrospective design to describe the endoscopic spectrum and review mortality data following acute upper gastro-intestinal bleeding at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. Endoscopic data was reviewed in the Endoscopy Unit between 2007 and 2010. Mortality data was collat...