Reviewer's report
Title:Video capsule endoscopy as the initial examination for overt obscure
gastrointestinal bleeding can efficiently identify patients who require
double-balloon enteroscopy
Version:2Date:3 July 2015
Reviewer: Chris Mulder
Reviewer's report:
Video capsule endoscopy as the initial examination for overt obscure
gastrointestinal bleeding can efficiently identify patients who require
double-balloon enteroscopy.
Page 1: Overall: eleven authors for 89 patients is too much: can you specify their
role in this article? Title otherwise fine.
Page 6: 89 patients in 6 years -> 15 per year.
How to obtain informed consent in all patients, how many patients died already?
Page 7: Results, what about “anticoagulant” prescriptions during DBE and VCE?
The diagnostic yield is higher if you go on with this during VCE, what did you do?
Page 8: The perforation in Behcet should be considered as complication of VCE
(<30 days) and should be mentioned as such.
Page 10: What about complication of VCE in Behcet? Due to the small number
NPV of VCE was 100% Page 12: Overall the numbers are too small with too
many authors listed. We consider this as a pilot study. Much larger multicenter
studies are needed with over 400-500 patients to be able to give such, otherwise
interesting, advice for daily practice is probably good. You can do this easily in
Japan.
Reviewer's report
Title:Video capsule endoscopy as the initial examination for overt obscure
gastrointestinal bleeding can efficiently identify patients who require
double-balloon enteroscopy
Version:2Date:3 July 2015
Reviewer: Chris Mulder
Reviewer's report:
Video capsule endoscopy as the initial examination for overt obscure
gastrointestinal bleeding can efficiently identify patients who require
double-balloon enteroscopy.
Page 1: Overall: eleven authors for 89 patients is too much: can you specify their
role in this article? Title otherwise fine.
Page 6: 89 patients in 6 years -> 15 per year.
How to obtain informed consent in all patients, how many patients died already?
Page 7: Results, what about “anticoagulant” prescriptions during DBE and VCE?
The diagnostic yield is higher if you go on with this during VCE, what did you do?
Page 8: The perforation in Behcet should be considered as complication of VCE
(<30 days) and should be mentioned as such.
Page 10: What about complication of VCE in Behcet? Due to the small number
NPV of VCE was 100% Page 12: Overall the numbers are too small with too
many authors listed. We consider this as a pilot study. Much larger multicenter
studies are needed with over 400-500 patients to be able to give such, otherwise
interesting, advice for daily practice is probably good. You can do this easily in
Japan.
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report
Title:Video capsule endoscopy as the initial examination for overt obscure
gastrointestinal bleeding can efficiently identify patients who require
double-balloon enteroscopy
Version:2Date:3 July 2015
Reviewer: Chris Mulder
Reviewer's report:
Video capsule endoscopy as the initial examination for overt obscure
gastrointestinal bleeding can efficiently identify patients who require
double-balloon enteroscopy.
Page 1: Overall: eleven authors for 89 patients is too much: can you specify their
role in this article? Title otherwise fine.
Page 6: 89 patients in 6 years -> 15 per year.
How to obtain informed consent in all patients, how many patients died already?
Page 7: Results, what about “anticoagulant” prescriptions during DBE and VCE?
The diagnostic yield is higher if you go on with this during VCE, what did you do?
Page 8: The perforation in Behcet should be considered as complication of VCE
(<30 days) and should be mentioned as such.
Page 10: What about complication of VCE in Behcet? Due to the small number
NPV of VCE was 100% Page 12: Overall the numbers are too small with too
many authors listed. We consider this as a pilot study. Much larger multicenter
studies are needed with over 400-500 patients to be able to give such, otherwise
interesting, advice for daily practice is probably good. You can do this easily in
Japan.
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