Q: My neighbor’s daughter was hospitalized for throwing up blood. She is just a child, what can cause this? A: Throwing up blood (hematemesis) is typically due to bleeding in the upper ...

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 . Rivaroxaban appeared associated with a higher rate of gastrointestinal bleeding than other direct oral ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In the general patient population, low-dose aspirin almost doubles the likelihood of upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, and adding drugs such as clopidogrel or high-dose corticosteroids raises the ...

Hemodialysis (HD) patients who use nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are at increased risk for GI bleeding, a study shows. From a population of 650 HD patients, Slobodan M. Jankovic, MD, ...

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 ...