Year 2025 / Volume 117 / Number 6
Letter
Capsule endoscopy: beyond the small bowel

351-352

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10449/2024

Luís Relvas, Francisco Velasco, Sónia Barros, Isabel Carvalho, Margarida Portugal, Paulo Caldeira, Bruno Peixe,

Abstract
Capsule endoscopy (CE) is considered the first-line for the investigation of OGIB after conventional non-diagnostic endoscopic examinations. A detection rate of lesions outside the small bowel segment has been reported to range from 3.5% to >30%. Our primary objective was to analyze the role of CE in identifying lesions outside the small bowel segment that were not identified on conventional endoscopy in patients suspected of OGIB. In our study, CE appears to be effective and safe in diagnosing OGIB, also proving to be a tool in identifying lesions outside the small intestine segment.
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Publication history

Received: 02/04/2024

Accepted: 03/04/2024

Online First: 18/04/2024

Published: 10/06/2025

Article Online First time: 16 days

Article editing time: 434 days


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