Interventional Double Balloon Endoscopy for Crohn's, Gastrointestinal Bleeding, and Foreign Body Extraction

Abstract

The new technique of double balloon endoscopy (DBE) has made possible not only accessing but also therapeutic interventions throughout the small bowel without the need for laparotomy or laparoscopy. Nowadays almost all types of therapeutic endoscopic interventions can be performed during DBE. Recently, a single balloon enteroscopy system with only one balloon at the tip of the overtube was proposed for small bowel enteroscopy, but only preliminary results on the clinical effectiveness of this system are available so far.