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.

Table 2 Summarized data of all studies evaluating the efficacy of therapeutic endoscopy in the management of diverticular bleeding

Author	Publication year	Type of study	n	Therapy	Early recurrence	Complications	Follow-up period (mo)
Johnston[21]	1986	Case Report	4	Coagulation	0	0	NS
Bertoni[22]	1990	Case Report	1	ADR	0	0	NS
Kim[23]	1993	Case Report	1	ADR	0	0	NS
Savides[24]	1994	Case Report	3	Coagulation	0	0	NS
Foutch[25]	1996	Case Report	4	Coagulation	1	0	NS
Ramirez[26]	1996	Case Report	4	ADR	0	0	NS
Hokama[27]	1997	Case Report	3	Clips	0	0	NS
Prakash[28]	1999	Case Report	3	Coagulation	0	0	NS
Jensen[16]	2000	Prospective	10	ADR, Coagulation, ADR + Coagulation	0	0	NS
Ohyama[11]	2000	Retrospective	6	ADR ± Coagulation ± Clips	0	0	NS
Bloomfeld[20]	2001	Retrospective	13	ADR ± Coagulation	5	0	35
Smoot[14]	2003	Retrospective	7	ADR (4), Clips (2), Thermocoagulation (1)	0	0	NS
Cuillerier[29]	2003	Case Report	2	ADR	0	0	3-18
Simpson[30]	2004	Case Report	2	ADR + Clips	0	0	4-30
Total			63		6 (9.5%)	0 (0%)

NS: Not stated.