The Diagnostic Yields and Safety of Double-Balloon Enteroscopy in Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding and Incomplete Small Bowel Obstruction: Comparison between the Adults and Elderly

Table 1

Clinical characteristics of adult and elderly patients underwent DBE.

	Adults ( (%))	Elderly ( (%))
Total	729	148	/
Gender (M/F)	401/328	82/66	0.929
Indications			0.169
Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding	588 (80.7)	112 (75.7)
Incomplete small bowel obstruction	141 (19.3)	36 (24.3)
Duration of symptom (week)			0.944
Past GI surgery	58 (9.9)	17 (11.5)	0.161
DBE time (min)			0.335
DBE route			0.819
Antegrade	298 (40.9)	62 (41.9)
Retrograde	431 (59.1)	86 (58.1)
Length of examined intestine (cm)			0.691