Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 10, Issue 3 , Pages 101-106, July 2008

Interventional Double Balloon Endoscopy for Crohn's, Gastrointestinal Bleeding, and Foreign Body Extraction

2nd Department of Medicine, Charles University Teaching Hospital, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.

The new technique of double balloon endoscopy (DBE) has made possible not only accessing but also therapeutic interventions throughout the small bowel without the need for laparotomy or laparoscopy. Nowadays almost all types of therapeutic endoscopic interventions can be performed during DBE. Recently, a single balloon enteroscopy system with only one balloon at the tip of the overtube was proposed for small bowel enteroscopy, but only preliminary results on the clinical effectiveness of this system are available so far.

Keywords: double balloon enteroscopy, angiodysplasias, argon plasma coagulation, foreign body extraction, stricture dilation

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 Dr. Rejchrt has no direct financial interests that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted manuscript.

PII: S1096-2883(08)00026-0

doi:10.1016/j.tgie.2008.03.002

Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 10, Issue 3 , Pages 101-106, July 2008

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