Video capsule endoscopy in left ventricular assist device recipients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding

Table 4 Previous studies of video capsule endoscopy in left ventricular assist device recipients

Study and the year published	No. of VCE	Diagnostic yield (%)	Findings	Remarks
Girelli et al[18], 2006	1	N/A	No bleeding identified	No follow up reported
Garatti et al[15], 2006	1	N/A	No bleeding identified	No recurrent GIB; received heart transplantation
Seow et al[17], 2006	1	N/A	Duodenal and jejunal angiodysplasia	Push enteroscopy + Octreotide + Sucralfate; no follow up reported
Fenkel et al[16], 2007	1	N/A	Small bowel angiodysplasia	No intervention; no follow up reported
Daas et al[14], 2008	1	N/A	Mid-small bowel active bleeding	Intraoperative enteroscopy;no follow up reported
Bechtel et al[19], 2010	1	N/A	Bleeding in cecum	Colonoscopy; no follow up reported
Elmunzer et al[6], 2011	13	4 (30.8)	3 jejunal angiodysplasias, 1 duodenal Dieulafoy’s lesion	1 recurrent bleeding from the same lesion
Meyer et al[22], 2012	5	4 (80.0)	2 jejunal angiodysplasia, 1 cecal ulcer, 1 jejunal mass	1 colonoscopy; 2 SBE; 1 angiography; no follow up reported
Tarzia et al[13], 2013	1	N/A	Small bowel angiodysplasia and small bowel Dieulafoy’s lesion	DBE; no follow up reported

DBE: Double balloon enteroscopy; GIB: Gastrointestinal bleeding; N/A: Not applicable; SBE: Single balloon enteroscopy; VCE: Video capsule endoscopy.