Clinical Utility of Emergency Capsule Endoscopy for Diagnosing the Source and Nature of Ongoing Overt Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Figure 1

Flow chart of patient enrolment, allocation, and analysis. Consecutive patients with ongoing overt OGIB were stratified according to the timing of CE relative to the onset of bleeding. All patients underwent double-balloon endoscopy, and the final diagnosis was compared against the CE findings. Abbreviations: CE, capsule endoscopy; OGIB, obscure gastrointestinal bleeding.