Authors: Jumpei Kondo Hideki Iijima Takashi Abe Masato Komori Satoshi Hiyama Toshifumi Ito Akihiro Nakama Kouhei Tominaga Mitsuhiko Kubo Kunio Suzuki Yoshihisa Iwanaga Ryoichi Ebara Akira Takeda Shingo Tsuji Tsutomu Nishida Shusaku Tsutsui Masahiko Tsujii Norio Hayashi
Publish Date: 2010/02/20
Volume: 45, Issue: 7, Pages: 713-720
Abstract
DBE examinations were most frequently performed in 75 patients with CD corresponding to 105 of all the patients examined by DBE Fifty patients were diagnosed with CD before DBE while DBE was performed for the diagnosis of 25 new CD patients Small bowel lesions were often detected even when the terminal ileum was not involved In the 75 patients 21 patients were asymptomatic at the time of DBE examinations Active inflammatory lesions were detected in 512 of the CD patients and were even detected in 333 of the asymptomatic CD patients The treatment was altered in 533 of the CD patients after the DBE evaluation No severe complications were experiencedWe thank all of the members of the Osaka University Small Bowel Study Group for performing DBE collecting data and fruitful suggestions The authors are grateful to Dr Y Yasunaga Hyogo Prefectural Nishinomiya Hospital Dr H Ogawa Nishinomiya Municipal Central Hospital Dr H Nishibayashi Otemae Hospital Dr T Fujimoto Sumitomo Hospital Dr O Tatsumi Yao Municipal Hospital Dr A Mukai T Inoue S Nakajima S Shinzaki S Egawa Osaka University and other members of the Osaka University Small Bowel Study Group Supported by a Grant in Aid from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant No 19590721
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