Jichi Medical University Hospital

Therapeutic Balloon‐Assisted Enteroscopy: Recent Advances in the Management of Small Bowel Diseases

ABSTRACT Balloon‐assisted enteroscopy (BAE) has substantially advanced small bowel disease management. This review summarizes recent therapeutic BAE advances, focusing on three major indications: small bowel vascular lesions, hereditary polyposis syndromes, and Crohn's disease (C...

Impact of the modified Frailty Index-5 on treatment selection and prognosis in octogenarians with bladder cancer eligible for radical cystectomy: a single-center, retrospective study

<title>Abstract</title> Background Developing treatment strategies for bladder cancer in octogenarians remains challenging owing to concerns regarding surgical invasiveness and the risk of undertreatment. We aimed to evaluate the effect of the modified Frailty Index-5 score on tr...