Review Article
Capsule Endoscopy for Portal Hypertensive Enteropathy
Table 3
Currently available scoring systems using various modalities.
| Year | First author | Scoring modality | Method | Each type |
| 2014 | Jeon [17] | CT | One point for each type of CT finding (a maximum score: six points) | (1) EVs or GVs (2) Other collateral circulations (e.g., periumbilical varices) (3) PHG or PHC (4) Portal hypertensive cholecystopathy (5) Splenomegaly (6) Ascites |
| 2010 | Abdelaal [10] | CE | One point for each type of lesion; two points for each type if it is multiple (>2 lesions) (a maximum score: eight points) | (1) Red spots (2) Angioectasias (3) Small bowel varices (4) Inflammatory-like lesions |
| 2008 | Kodama [11] | DBE | One point for each type of lesion (a maximum score: six points) | (1) Edema of villi (2) Atrophy of villi (3) Reddening of villi (4) Angiodysplasia-like lesions (5) Dilated/proliferated vessels (6) Varices |
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CT: computed tomography; EVs: esophageal varices; GVs: gastric varices; PHG: portal hypertensive gastropathy; PHC: portal hypertensive colopathy; CE: capsule endoscopy; DBE: double-balloon enteroscopy.
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