Table 5. Overall complications associated with single-balloon enteroscopy procedures.
Complications | Total SBE (N = 200) N (%) | Anterograde SBE (N = 101) N (%) | Retrograde SBE (N = 99) N (%) | *P value | |
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Category | Complication | ||||
Major | |||||
Pancreatitis | 1 (0.5) | 1 (1.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0.321 | |
Bleeding | 1 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.0) | 0.311 | |
Perforation | 1 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.0) | 0.311 | |
Minor | |||||
Hyperamylasemia | 16 (8.0) | 14 (13.9) | 2 (2.0) | 0.005 |
*Pearson chi-square test. SBE: single-balloon enteroscopy