| Theme | Endoscopic balloon dilation for small bowel stricture in Crohn's disease | |
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| Title | Endoscopic balloon dilatation for Crohn's disease-associated small bowel stricture | |
| Publish Date | 2020/08 | |
| Author | Yutaka Endo | Center for Digestive Disease and IBD, Ofuna Chuo Hospital |
| Author | Atsushi Yoshida | Center for Digestive Disease and IBD, Ofuna Chuo Hospital |
| Author | Haruaki Nabeta | Center for Digestive Disease and IBD, Ofuna Chuo Hospital |
| Author | Yoshihide Morikawa | Center for Digestive Disease and IBD, Ofuna Chuo Hospital |
| Author | Fumiaki Ueno | Center for Digestive Disease and IBD, Ofuna Chuo Hospital |
| [ Summary ] | EBD is an effective therapy for improving CD stricture symptoms. Recently, small bowel EBD using balloon endoscopy has been widely performed in Japan. EBD has some disadvantages, such as regular dilation being needed in many cases, risk of perforation, technical difficulties of small bowel insertion, and scope instability, compared to colonic EBD. In this article, we describe the indications, technical details, and follow-up with a case presentation of small bowel EBD using balloon endoscopy. | |