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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Bleeding in the lower gastrointestinal tract increased risk for incident colorectal cancer in patients with ...

ATLANTA, Georgia — Patients with atrial fibrillation receiving anticoagulant therapy are more likely to experience gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding when treated with rivaroxaban than when treated with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with acute MI, upper gastrointestinal bleeding occurred in 1.5% within 1 year and was associated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Major upper GI tract bleeding is a frequent complication of oral anticoagulant therapy Hospitalization risk for upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract bleeding appears to be associated with oral ...

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 ...

Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding was observed in 3% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients, and a bleed developing during hospitalization was tied to greater mortality, a large New York cohort study found.

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 ...

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 ...