Current guidelines recommend 5 to 7 days of broad-spectrum antibiotic prophylaxis for upper gastrointestinal bleeding in ...

Current guidelines for patients with cirrhosis and upper-GI bleeding recommend 5 to 7 days of antibiotic prophylaxis to ...

Those with stage 5 CKD had a 40% higher chance of being hospitalized with gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding than patients without CKD (aOR 1.4, 95% CI 1.3-1.4, P <0.001), reported Mingyue He, MD, of ...

Key Takeaways Gastrointestinal bleeding in GIST patients significantly impacts recurrence-free and overall survival, with gastric bleeding linked to worse prognosis. Bleeding is less common in the ...

“Anything out of the ordinary, like a GI bleed, can extend a case, which delays the next patient and could delay the rest of the day’s cases too. That may result in overtime for staff.” Dr. Saeed ...

It found overall GI bleeding incidence to be 0.45%, defined as 'GI blood loss requiring a transfusion, prolonged hospital stay and/or a drop in hemoglobin greater than 3 g/dl'.

Recognize warning signs including black, tarry stools (indicating upper GI bleeding); bright red blood in stool (suggesting lower GI bleeding); or vomiting blood or coffee-ground-like material ...

New guidelines regarding medications for gastrointestinal bleeding were jointly released by the American College of Gastroenterology and the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology on March 21. This ...

The researchers found that clinically important upper gastrointestinal bleeding occurred in 25 of 2385 and 84 of 2377 patients receiving pantoprazole and placebo, respectively (1.0 vs 3.5%; hazard ...

Data suggest that apixaban, a direct oral anticoagulant, may be preferable to other drugs in its category as it was associated with a lower risk for GI bleeding compared with its counterparts ...

Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Michael C Wallace; Jamie Rankin; Geoffrey M Forbes Disclosures Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012;6 (2):211-221.