{"id":2816,"date":"2022-06-06T15:11:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T18:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2022-06-06T15:11:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T18:11:02","slug":"the-role-of-capsule-endoscopy-in-urgent-evaluation-of-obscure-gastrointestinal-bleeding-a-case-series-of-meckel-diverticulum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/the-role-of-capsule-endoscopy-in-urgent-evaluation-of-obscure-gastrointestinal-bleeding-a-case-series-of-meckel-diverticulum\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ROLE OF CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY IN URGENT EVALUATION OF OBSCURE GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING: A CASE SERIES OF MECKEL DIVERTICULUM\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">INTRODUCTION<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Meckel\u2019s diverticulum (MD) is the most common congenital malformation of the gastrointestinal tract<sup>4<\/sup>. In adults, it is usually clinically silent, but can be found incidentally, or may present with a variety of clinical manifestations including gastrointestinal bleeding, intussusception, intestinal obstruction or perforation<sup>3<\/sup><sup>,<\/sup><sup>4<\/sup>. By other hand, videocapsule endoscopy (VCE) is a powerful diagnostic tool that is especially useful in imaging the small intestine and management of patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding<sup>5<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors conducted a retrospective analysis of patients with MD diagnosed by VCE, between 2006 and 2015, in a tertiary referral center. All cases were followed for at least 18 months after the diagnosis.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTRODUCTION Meckel\u2019s diverticulum (MD) is the most common congenital malformation of the gastrointestinal tract4. In adults, it is usually clinically silent, but can be found incidentally, or may present with a variety of clinical manifestations including gastrointestinal bleeding, intussusception, intestinal obstruction or perforation3,4. By other hand, videocapsule endoscopy (VCE) is a powerful diagnostic tool that [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}