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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Chan and colleagues assessed data on 19,114 patients from Aspree, an aspirin primary prevention trial. In the ...

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 ...

Dr. Rosario Ligresti explained that while many GISTs are found incidentally, larger tumors may cause anemia, bleeding or swallowing issues. Anemia and gastrointestinal bleeding are among the most ...

THERE have been two striking changes in the last twenty years in the management of hemorrhage from the upper gastrointestinal tract. Twenty years ago many able clinicians discouraged the giving of ...

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 ...