Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is a symptom of a disease, condition, or injury affecting any part of the gastrointestinal tract. The GI tract includes the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon ...

Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012;6(2):211-221. Finally, a prospective case series analysis which enrolled 20,621 patients undergoing PCI for all indications from the year 2000 to 2010, across 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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Lower gastrointestinal bleeding is one of the leading causes of hospitalization in the United States due to a ...

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 ...

A hemostatic powder, TC-325 (Hemospray), worked as well as standard treatment for endoscopic control of acute bleeds from nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal lesions, a randomized trial found. In the ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- People with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) faced higher rates of potentially fatal gastrointestinal bleeding, a retrospective study found. Those with stage 5 CKD had a 40% ...

Nexpowder is a noncontact, nonthermal and nontraumatic powder that can treat upper gastrointestinal bleeding, according to a Sept. 28 news release from the company shared with Becker’s. Seventy-five ...

Patients who suffer a GI bleed after PCI are a challenging group. They may have multiple comorbidities and are often medically unstable; treatment must balance the need to prevent ischemic ...