Meckel’s Diverticulum Diagnosed by Balloon-Assisted Enteroscopy: A Multicenter Report from the Taiwan Association for the Study of Small Intestinal Diseases (TASSID)

Table 1

Clinical characteristics of patients with Meckel’s diverticulum diagnosed by BAE ().

Patient characteristics	No. of patients (%)
Gender
Male	46 (83.6)
Female	9 (16.4)
Age
, years [range]	[4-85]
≧20 years	44 (80)
<20 years	11 (20)
Symptoms
Overt GI bleeding	48 (87.3)
Abdominal pain	5 (9.1)
Suspected small bowel tumor	1 (1.8)
Crohn’s disease follow-up	1 (1.8)
Symptom onset
Acute (≦6 months)	44 (80)
Chronic (>6 months)	11 (20)
Comorbidities
Healthy	43 (78.2)
Comorbidity	12 (21.8)
HTN and heart disease	3
Thalassemia	2
Liver cirrhosis and CHB	2
Crohn’s disease	1
CKD	1
ITP	1
BPH	1
Type B aortic dissection	1
Bronchiectasis postlung transplant	1
Metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer	1
Old stroke	1

BAE: balloon-assisted enteroscopy; BPH: benign prostate hyperplasia; CHB: chronic hepatitis B; CKD: chronic kidney disease; DM: diabetes mellitus; GI: gastrointestinal; HTN: hypertension; ITP: idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura; SD: standard deviation.