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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Routine Helicobacter pylori screening did not significantly reduce the risk of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients hospitalized for myocardial infarction (MI), according to late-breaking ...

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 ...

Stress-induced gastrointestinal bleeding is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. Within the past few decades, the incidence of stress-induced gastrointestinal ...

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 ...

Background: Some people who suffer an upper gastrointestinal bleed or perforation die. The mortality rate was estimated at 12% in studies published before 1997, but a systematic survey of more recent ...

The American College of Gastroenterology published updated guidelines on managing upper gastrointestinal and ulcer bleeding in the May 2021 issue of The American Journal of Gastroenterology. The ...