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What causes a gastrointestinal (GI) bleed?

Symptoms of GI bleeding include stomach pain, vomiting blood, or having black, tarry stool. Peptic ulcers are the leading ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Emergency X-Ray Examination in the Diagnosis of Severe Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

A CUTE and massive gastrointestinal hemorrhage is a serious and often life-threatening event. The necessity for early establishment of the actual site of bleeding has been a challenge to internists, ...
Medscape

Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Patient With AIDS

Nat Clin Pract Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2006;3(6):349-353. V. Balderas is second-year Internal Medicine Resident at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. S.J. Spechler is Chief of the ...
Khaberni

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Human Resource Development, Hematemesis: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Khaberni - The Health Care Family Institute newsletter (from the King Hussein Foundation institutes) discusses today, ...
Healio

Magnetic-assisted capsule endoscopy assesses upper GI bleeds

Magnetic assisted capsule endoscopy is effective for the assessment of upper gastrointestinal bleeding, according to study results. Hey-Long Ching, MBBS, BSc, MRCP, of the academic department of ...
Science Daily

Eight predictors of upper gastrointestinal bleeding after heart attack

Researchers have identified eight primary factors that increase the risk of a common bleeding complication after heart attack. Some of these factors are already known, but using machine learning ...
MedPage Today

Hemostatic Powder on Par for Stopping Acute Upper GI Bleeds

In the study of over 200 patients, 90.1% of those who received TC-325 had their bleeding controlled within 30 days, as compared to 81.4% of those who received standard treatment, meeting criteria for ...
Nature

Endoscopy for upper gastrointestinal bleeding: is routine second-look necessary?

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 ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Surgical Management of Massive Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage

SHORTLY after World War II the therapy of acute massive upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage changed radically throughout this country. Repeated generous whole-blood transfusions and early feeding ...
Healio

Early endoscopy linked to superior outcomes in upper GI bleeding

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with urgent endoscopy and late endoscopy, early endoscopy correlated with better outcomes among ...
Medscape

Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Man With Cirrhosis

The patient was immediately given volume resuscitation, blood transfusion, and octreotide bolus and constant infusion. All signs of active bleeding subsided. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was ...