Small Bowel Imaging in Managing Crohn’s Disease Patients

Table 6

Balloon dilation for symptomatic small bowel strictures with the use of balloon-assisted enteroscopy; Small bowel strictures in anastomotic and nonanastomotic Crohn’s disease.

Author	Year	n	Balloon dilation			Complication
			Technical success	Clinical response	Failed
Yamamoto et al. [16]	2004	6	6	6	6	None
Pohl et al. [17]	2007	19	8	6	13	None
Fukumoto et al. [18]	2007	23	22	17	2 (Surgery) 4 (repeated dilation)	None
Despott et al. [19]	2009	11	9	8	2	Perforation (𝑛=1)
Hirai et al. [20]	2010	25	18	18	7	𝑛=2
Kondo et al. [21]	2010	12	8	7	1	None