Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Chan and colleagues assessed data on 19,114 patients from Aspree, an aspirin primary prevention trial. In the ...

Patients who developed upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding during a hospital stay experienced worse adverse outcomes than those admitted for upper GI bleeding alone, French researchers found in a ...

Warfarin is associated with higher rates of upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding but not overall or lower gastrointestinal bleeding rates compared with direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), according to ...

A study published in The Lancet examined celecoxib use versus naproxen in patients with cardiothrombotic diseases and arthritis. Francis K. L. Chan, MD, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “GI bleeding is the most common GI reason for hospitalization in the U.S. and thus the most common emergency ...

Background: Some people who suffer an upper gastrointestinal bleed or perforation die. The mortality rate was estimated at 12% in studies published before 1997, but a systematic survey of more recent ...

For patients with bleeding from some nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal causes, over-the-scope clips (OTSC) may be better than standard treatment for reducing the risk for further bleeding, according ...

It is recommended that patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding undergo endoscopy within 24 hours after gastroenterologic consultation. The role of endoscopy performed within time frames ...

Some antidepressant medications carry a significant risk of upper-GI hemorrhage. The risk more than triples when the patient also takes certain painkillers. Data from four studies involving 153,000 ...

The American College of Gastroenterology published updated guidelines on managing upper gastrointestinal and ulcer bleeding in the May 2021 issue of The American Journal of Gastroenterology. The ...