Stopping antithrombotic therapy may be the most modifiable mechanism behind adverse cardiovascular outcomes after gastrointestinal bleeding.

PHILADELPHIA — Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) among patients on dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) remains risky in terms of morbidity and mortality, but ...

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 ...

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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified eight primary factors that increase the risk of a common bleeding complication after heart attack. Some of these factors are already ...

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 ...

Study is the largest to explore this potential safety issue to date. Cinacalcet use does not increase the risk for severe gastrointestinal bleeding that leads to hospitalization or death, according to ...

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 ...

The common practice of using proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) as prophylaxis against stress ulcers during invasive ventilation significantly reduced the risk of problematic gastrointestinal (GI) bleeds, ...

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 ...

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 ...