Midileal Dieulafoy Lesion

AbstractSmall bowel Dieulafoy lesion is a rare vascular abnormality (1% of all gastrointestinal Dieulafoy lesions) and is mostly located in the jejunum. Its clinical presentation is recurrent obscure-overt gastrointestinal bleeding severe enough to require hospitalization and blood transfusions. Till the beginning of the new millennium, small bowel Dieulafoy lesion was detected only by laparotomy; tremendous advances in the endoscopic field, with the advent of capsule endoscopy and device-assisted enteroscopy, now allow the identification of this lesion early in the diagnostic workup of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding. In this article, a short capsule endoscopy video of a well-documented midileal Dieulafoy lesion is reported. This article is part of an expert video encyclopedia