Role of endoscopy in the management of acute diverticular bleeding

Table 1 Summarized data of the largest series evaluating the efficacy of endoscopy in the diagnosis and the management of lower gastrointestinal bleeding

Author	Publication year	Number of patients	Incomplete colonoscopy (%)	Positive diagnosis (%)	Endoscopic hemostasis (%)	Complications (%)
Jensen[5]	1988	80	0	74	39	5
Richter[6]	1995	78	11.5	90	13	NS
Geller[7]	1997	524	2	42	17	0.5
Kok[8]	1998	190	16	78	5	0
Prakash[9]	1998	30	0	60	6	0
Chaudhry[10]	1998	85	2	97	31	3.5
Ohyama[11]	2000	345	45	89	14	11
Schmulewitz[12]	2003	415	NS	89	10	0.002
Strate[13]	2003	144	5	90	10	NS

NS: Not stated.