Neil Sengupta, David M Kastenberg, David H Bruining, Melissa Latorre, Jonathan A Leighton, Olga R Brook, Michael L Wells, Flavius F Guglielmo, Haresh V Naringrekar, Michael S Gee, Jorge A Soto, Seong Ho Park, Don C Yoo, Vijay Ramalingam, Alvaro Huete, Ashish Khandelwal, Avneesh Gupta, Brian C Allen, Mark A Anderson, Bari R Dane, Farnoosh Sokhandon, David J Grand, Justin R Tse, Jeff L Fidler
Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is the most common GI diagnosis leading to hospitalization within the United States. Prompt diagnosis and treatment of GI bleeding is critical to improving patient outcomes and reducing high health care utilization and costs. Radiologic techniques including CT angiography, catheter angiography, CT enterography, MR enterography, nuclear medicine red blood cell scan, and technetium-99m pertechnetate scintigraphy (Meckel scan) are frequently used to evaluate patients with GI bleeding and are complementary to GI endoscopy...
March 2024: Radiology