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Table 5 Characteristics of patients with a pain score of 5 or higher during their previous examination

From: A single-center prospective study on pain alleviation during peroral upper endoscopy with an ultrathin endoscope

 

Peroral endoscopy with

Previous non-

*P-value

an UT-EGD

sedated C-EGD

n = 97

n = 97

EGD time (min)

4 (2–8)

4 (1–9)

0.101

Pain score

3 (0–7)

7 (5–10)

< 0.01

EG-740 N / GIF-XP290N

59 (60.8%) / 38 (39.2%)

  

Willing to repeat peroral endoscopy with an UT-ESD

95 (97.0%)

  
  1. Data are presented as median (range) or number (percentage)
  2. Abbreviations: UT-EGD, ultrathin esophagogastroduodenoscopy; C-EGD, conventional esophagogastroduodenoscopy;
  3. *P-value calculated using the chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test for categorical data
  4. or a t-test or the Mann–Whitney U test for continuous data
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BMC Gastroenterology

ISSN: 1471-230X

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