A new study casts doubt on international guidelines advising up to a week of prophylactic antibiotics in patients with cirrhosis and upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. Pooled data from 14 ...

Warfarin is associated with higher rates of upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding but not overall or lower gastrointestinal bleeding rates compared with direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), according to ...

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 ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Patients taking blood thinners who were also prescribed statins had a lower risk of gastrointestinal bleeding, no matter what type of blood thinner was used, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) constitutes a significant emergency in gastroenterology, arising from diverse aetiologies including peptic ulcers, variceal haemorrhage, erosive diseases and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...