Videocapsule endoscopy identifies small bowel lesions in patients with eosinophilic enteritis reported a recent study published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. It is well known that eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases are often characterized by gastrointestinal symptoms and dense mucosal eosinophilia. However, eosinophilic enteritis is one of the rare gastrointestinal diseases, nevertheless can be apparent with diarrhea, abdominal pain, or gastrointestinal bleeding.
A 2-year-old boy presented with fatigue, anorexia, iron-deficiency anemia (hemoglobin level, 8.5 g/dL; mean corpuscular volume, 62.5 fL), hemoccult-positive stool, and peripheral eosinophilia (880 cells/μL). Upper endoscopy and colonoscopy were exceptionally and histologically unremarkable. However, Videocapsule endoscopy (VCE) displayed jejunal and proximal ileal salmon-colored patches (as shown in Figures…
