Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA has approved an oral suspension omeprazole and sodium bicarbonate for the treatment of active benign ...

Gastrointestinal bleeding in GIST patients significantly impacts recurrence-free and overall survival, with gastric bleeding linked to worse prognosis. Bleeding is less common in the small intestine, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every year in the U.S., doctors perform more than 1 million endoscopic hemostasis procedures to treat gastrointestinal bleeding, the majority of which are upper GI bleeds. One popular treatment method ...

Bleeding in ET can range from minor mucocutaneous events to severe hemorrhages, with gastrointestinal bleeding being most common. The JAK2 V617F variant increases bleeding and thrombosis risk, ...

Gastrointestinal bleeding is common among people with cirrhosis due to a complication called portal hypertension. This is elevated blood pressure in the veins that lead to your liver. Cirrhosis is ...

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 ...

Both conditions involve symptoms of gastrointestinal bleeding, though a major difference is that hematochezia often presents as bright red blood in the stool, while melena appears as black, tarry ...

Secondary aortoenteric fistula (SAF) is an uncommon but very important complication of abdominal aortic reconstruction. The complication often occurs months to years after aortic surgery. The clinical ...

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 ...