Nat Clin Pract Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2005;2(6):246-247. For centuries, gastrointestinal bleeding has been recognized as a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with pathology of the ...

Tranexamic acid (TXA) failed to reduce the need for red blood cell (RBC) transfusion following surgery for liver cancer, including colorectal liver metastases, the placebo-controlled HeLiX trial ...

Patients undergoing noncardiac surgery who received a single dose of tranexamic acid (TXA), which promotes blood clotting, at the beginning and end of their surgery had significantly less serious ...

The benefit of routine repeat endoscopy after endoscopic hemostasis in the management of peptic ulcer bleeding is controversial. The aim of this Review is to evaluate the efficacy of second-look ...

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 ...

A scoring system based on clinical and laboratory markers identifies stable low-risk patients who can be managed safely as outpatients. Upper gastrointestinal (UGI) bleeding is a common reason for ...

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 ...

“I never predict. I just look out of the window and see what is visible—but not yet seen.” Peter Drucker (1909–2005, writer and management consultant). Predicting the future necessitates gazing into a ...

Konvomep contains 2mg of omeprazole, a proton pump inhibitor, and 84mg of sodium bicarbonate per mL after reconstitution. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Konvomep ™ (omeprazole and ...

Low-dose prophylactic aspirin increased overall baseline gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding risk by approximately 60% in elderly users -- 87% for upper- and 36% for lower-GI bleeds -- according to a large ...