Systematic review: Safety of balloon assisted enteroscopy in Crohn’s disease

Table 1 Study demographics n (%)

	BAE studies, n = 73	DBE, n = 60	SBE, n = 11
	Patients, n = 1812	n = 1509	n = 187
Published manuscripts	47 (64)	39 (65)	8 (72)
United States center	11 (15)	9 (15)	0 (0)
Prospective	19 (26)	14 (23)	6 (55)
Published pre-2010	18 (25)	17 (28)	1 (10)
Crohn’s patients per study
5-10	26 (36)	23 (38)	3 (27)
11-25	25 (34)	20 (33)	5 (45)
> 25	22 (30)	17 (28)	3 (27)
Age, mean ± SD	42.9 ± 15.4	42.4 ± 15.5	45.0 ± 15.8

Three studies and 116 patients were solely reported as “balloon assisted enteroscopy”; 1 study included both DBE and SBE. DBE: Double balloon enteroscopy; SBE: Single balloon enteroscopy; BAE: Balloon assisted enteroscopy.