Daiki Abe, Tsutomu Takeda, Daisuke Asaoka, Tomoyo Iwano, Ryota Uchida, Hisanori Utsunomiya, Shotaro Oki, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Atsushi Ikeda, Noboru Yatagai, Yoichi Akazawa, Kohei Matsumoto, Kumiko Ueda, Hiroya Ueyama, Mariko Hojo, Yuko Kojima, Shinji Nakamura, Shuko Nojiri, Akihito Nagahara
Bile acids are strongly associated with the pathogenesis of functional gastrointestinal diseases. In recent years, blue laser imaging (BLI) endoscopy has emerged as a novel image-enhanced endoscopic method, which illustrates bile as a reddish hue. The present study investigated the factors that affect the area of bile in duodenal bulbs using BLI. For this purpose, patients (356 cases) who underwent upper endoscopy with BLI between April, 2017 and December, 2019, and completed patient background and symptom questionnaires [Constipation Scoring System (CSS), Bristol Stool Form Scale (BSFS) and Frequency Scale for Symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (FSSG)], were retrospectively investigated...
October 2022: Biomedical Reports