Detection of active bleeding from gastric antral vascular ectasia by capsule endoscopy

作     者：Tetsuya Ohira Akira Hokama Nagisa Kinjo Manabu Nakamoto Chiharu Kobashigawa Yuya Kise Satoshi Yamashiro Fukunori Kinjo Yukio Kuniyoshi Jiro Fujita 

作者机构：Department of EndoscopyUniversity Hospital of the RyukyusOkinawa 903-0125Japan Department of InfectiousRespiratory and Digestive MedicineGraduate School of MedicineUniversity of the RyukyusOkinawa 903-0125Japan Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryGraduate School of MedicineUniversity of the RyukyusOkinawa 903-0125Japan 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy》 (世界胃肠内镜杂志（英文版）（电子版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第5卷第3期

页      面：138-140页

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Gastrointestinal bleeding Gastrointestinal endoscopy Capsule endoscopy Gastric antral vascular ectasia Argon plasma coagulation 

摘      要：Gastric antral vascular ectasia(GAVE) has been recognized as one of the important causes of occult and obscure gastrointestinal *** diagnosis is typically made based on the characteristic endoscopic features,including longitudinal row of flat,reddish stripes radiating from the pylorus into the antrum that resemble the stripes on a *** appearances,however,can easily be misinterpreted as moderate to severe *** it is believed that capsule endoscopy(CE) is not helpful for the study of the stomach with its large lumen,GAVE can be more likely to be detected at CE rather than conventional *** can be regarded as physiologic endoscopy,without the need for gastric inflation and subsequent compression of the *** blood flow of the ecstatic vessels may be diminished in an inflated ***,GAVE may be prominent in *** herein describe a case of active bleeding from GAVE detected by CE and would like to emphasize a possibility that CE can improve diagnostic yields for GAVE.