Video capsule endoscopy for upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage in the emergency department: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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2020-06
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OBJECTIVE:The assessment of the severity of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage in emergency department (ED) patients is difficult to assess with commonly available diagnostic tools. Small studies have shown that video capsule endoscopy (VCE) is a promising risk-stratification method and may be better than current clinical decision rules such as the Rockall score and the Glasgow Blatchford score. This review aims to assess the accuracy of VCE to detect active upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage compared to a reference standard. METHODS:The PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) methodology was used to perform a review of studies that have measured the diagnostic accuracy of VCE. Studies were included if they measured ED use of VCE for upper GI hemorrhage as compared to a reference standard of an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). A meta-analysis was performed on select patients using a fixed effects and random-effects model to determine the primary outcome of diagnostic test accuracy. RESULTS:40 studies were screened for eligibility and five studies representing 193 patients met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. All patients received both a VCE and an EGD. The sensitivity and specificity of VCE were 0.724 and 0.748, respectively. The diagnostic odds ratio was 6.29 (95% CI: 3.23-12.25) and the summary receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.782. CONCLUSIONS:VCE demonstrated high accuracy for detecting upper GI hemorrhage in this meta-analysis of existing studies. In light of the potential advantages of VCE in the ED, further research is warranted to further establish its role.
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Shah, Nidhi, Chen Chen, Nataly Montano, David Cave, Rebecca Siegel, Nina T Gentile, Alexander T Limkakeng, Anita B Kumar, et al. (2020). Video capsule endoscopy for upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage in the emergency department: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The American journal of emergency medicine, 38(6). pp. 1245–1252. 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.03.008 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/21628.
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Alexander Tan Limkakeng
Dr. Alexander T. Limkakeng, Jr., MD, MHSc, FACEP is a Professor of Emergency Medicine, Vice Chair of Clinical Research, Director of the Acute Care Research Team, and Director of the Resident Research Fellowship for the Department of Emergency Medicine in the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina.
Dr. Limkakeng has served as chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Research Committee, and been the Course Director of the ACEP Research Forum from 2016-2018, the largest emergency medical research platform in the nation. He is also the Assistant Director of ACEP’s Emergency Medicine Basic Research Skills course. He was elected to the Nominating Committee of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine.
As a researcher, Dr. Limkakeng has led multiple clinical trials and interdepartmental sponsored projects and is author on over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts. These include studies in emergency conditions such as COVID-19, traumatic brain injury, hypertension, heart failure, thrombosis, stroke, envenomations, and septic shock. His research has been funded by grants and contracts totaling over $9 million dollars. He has lectured internationally on acute coronary syndrome, responsible conduct of research, design of clinical trials, and precision medicine in emergency care. He has led Duke’s involvement in NIH-funded research networks and in industry-funded work that led to FDA approval for multiple high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays and point-of-care COVID-19 diagnostic tests. He has servesd as Co-PI for the Duke U24 Hub in the NIH Early Phase Pain Investigation Clinical Network (EPPIC-Net) (1U24NS114416) and now serves as a co-PI on the Duke U24 Hub award (1U24NS129498) in the NIH Strategies to Innovate Emergency Care Clinical Trials (SIREN) Network and in the NIH NINDS Strokenet network (1U24NS135250)
His personal research interest is finding new ways to diagnose acute coronary syndrome. In particular, he is interested in novel biomarkers and precision medicine approaches to this problem. The common element throughout this work is a focus on time-sensitive health conditions.
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