Bari Dane, Avneesh Gupta, Michael L Wells, Mark A Anderson, Jeff L Fidler, Haresh V Naringrekar, Brian C Allen, Olga R Brook, David H Bruining, Michael S Gee, David J Grand, David Kastenberg, Ashish Khandelwal, Neil Sengupta, Jorge A Soto, Flavius F Guglielmo
Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is a potentially life-threatening condition accounting for more than 300 000 annual hospitalizations. Multidetector abdominopelvic CT angiography is commonly used in the evaluation of patients with GI bleeding. Given that many patients with severe overt GI bleeding are unlikely to tolerate bowel preparation, and inpatient colonoscopy is frequently limited by suboptimal preparation obscuring mucosal visibility, CT angiography is recommended as a first-line diagnostic test in patients with severe hematochezia to localize a source of bleeding...
June 2023: Radiographics: a Review Publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc