Medscape

GI Bleeding on Oral Anticoagulants in Atrial Fib Foremost a Colon Cancer Red Flag

Bleeding from the lower gastrointestinal (GI) tract shouldn't be seen as simply a manageable adverse effect of oral anticoagulation (OAC) for atrial fibrillation (AF). Rather, it's a red flag that the ...
Medscape

Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012;6(2):211-221. Finally, a prospective case series analysis which enrolled 20,621 patients undergoing PCI for all indications from the year 2000 to 2010, across a ...
Becker's ASC

Managing GI bleeding in the ASC: How tech is driving efficiency + safety for endoscopy

Among Medicare-certified, single-specialty ASCs, endoscopy is the most common focus, and more than one-third (37%) 1 of certified multi-specialty ASCs have an endoscopy service line. Patient volumes ...
MedPage Today

Gastrointestinal Bleeding More Common in Advanced CKD

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- People with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) faced higher rates of potentially fatal gastrointestinal bleeding, a retrospective study found. Those with stage 5 CKD had a 40% ...
European Medical Journal

Lactate Clearance Helps Predict Massive Transfusion in GI Bleeding

New real-world data suggest early lactate clearance can predict massive transfusion needs in upper gastrointestinal bleeding, ...
The Cardiology Advisor

Apixaban Linked to Higher Gastrointestinal Bleed Risk Than Aspirin in SCAF

While apixaban was linked to more total major bleeds, rates of fatal and intracranial hemorrhage were similar to aspirin.
Healio

Metoclopramide use in upper GI bleeding stalled by ‘startling’ lack of published trials

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Evidence for metoclopramide use in upper GI bleeding is very low, with few published trial data. Existing data ...
Healio

Apixaban ‘might be preferable’ to other DOACs due to lower GI bleeding risk

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Thalidomide Reduced Episodes of Recurrent GI Bleeding

Treatment with thalidomide led to a reduction in bleeding among patients with recurrent bleeding due to small-intestinal angiodysplasia (SIA), a randomized trial showed. In 150 patients, 68.6% of ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Pantoprazole Cuts GI Bleeding in Patients Undergoing Invasive Ventilation

Pantoprazole yields lower clinically important upper GI bleeding, with no significant change in mortality vs placebo. HealthDay News — Pantoprazole results in a significantly lower risk for clinically ...
clinicaladvisor.com

SSRIs linked to GI bleeding

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 ...