[Colonoscopy and "hot" biopsy. Its value in vascular ectasias of the colon]. 1982

J Rainoldi, and A Naves, and T Sola, and J C Miguel

According to Gerald Rogers et. al., we believe about the usefulness of colonoscopy and endoscopic biopsy using Williams' forcep (hot biopsy forcep) for the diagnosis and final treatment of colon vascular ectasias. This method should be used immediately after the hemorrhage has finished. Angiography is prescribed when: 1) endoscopy suggests or confirm the presence of vascular ectasias in order to establish the degree of lesions and the therapeutic management. 2) When the caecum cannot be reached by the colonoscope. 3) When endoscopy is negative and there is firm clinic assumption of ectasias but the colonoscopic study has been done to much later after the bleeding stopped. Selective angiography would be the first prescription in case of bleeding which doesn't stop quickly with the necessity of immediate therapeutic measures taking into account the difficulties of intrahemorrhagic colonoscopy. Five cases are presented to support this point of view concerning the diagnosis of vascular ectasias of the right colon and considerations are made about local treatment by mean of colonoscopy and hot biopsy forcep which, when it's possible, has less morbidity and mortality than surgery, specially in attention than this is an entity concerning elderly patients.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D003106 Colon The segment of LARGE INTESTINE between the CECUM and the RECTUM. It includes the ASCENDING COLON; the TRANSVERSE COLON; the DESCENDING COLON; and the SIGMOID COLON. Appendix Epiploica,Taenia Coli,Omental Appendices,Omental Appendix,Appendices, Omental,Appendix, Omental
D003108 Colonic Diseases Pathological processes in the COLON region of the large intestine (INTESTINE, LARGE). Colonic Disease,Disease, Colonic,Diseases, Colonic
D003113 Colonoscopy Endoscopic examination, therapy or surgery of the luminal surface of the colon. Colonoscopic Surgical Procedures,Surgical Procedures, Colonoscopic,Colonoscopic Surgery,Surgery, Colonoscopic,Colonoscopic Surgeries,Colonoscopic Surgical Procedure,Colonoscopies,Procedure, Colonoscopic Surgical,Procedures, Colonoscopic Surgical,Surgeries, Colonoscopic,Surgical Procedure, Colonoscopic
D004108 Dilatation, Pathologic The condition of an anatomical structure's being dilated beyond normal dimensions. Ectasia,Dilatation, Pathological,Dilatations, Pathologic,Dilatations, Pathological,Pathologic Dilatation,Pathologic Dilatations,Pathological Dilatation,Pathological Dilatations
D004564 Electrocoagulation Procedures using an electrically heated wire or scalpel to treat hemorrhage (e.g., bleeding ulcers) and to ablate tumors, mucosal lesions, and refractory arrhythmias. It is different from ELECTROSURGERY which is used more for cutting tissue than destroying and in which the patient is part of the electric circuit. Diathermy, Surgical,Electrocautery,Endocavitary Fulguration,Galvanocautery,Surgical Diathermy,Thermocoagulation,Fulguration, Endocavitary
D005260 Female Females
D006471 Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage Bleeding in any segment of the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT from ESOPHAGUS to RECTUM. Hematochezia,Hemorrhage, Gastrointestinal,Gastrointestinal Hemorrhages,Hematochezias
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man

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