Lower gastrointestinal bleeding
A Study of Management of Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
... the gastrointestinal tract ranges from ...of lower gastrointestinal bleeding, with the remaining cases arising in the small ...bowel. Lower GI bleeding predominantly affects ...
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Etiological Profile of Patients Presenting with Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Ibb Governorate Yemen
... of lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB) in Yemeni patients and to compare our results with the results of oth- er ...whom lower GI endoscopy was ...of lower GI bleeding in our ...
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Etiological profile of patients presenting with lower gastrointestinal bleeding at tertiary care hospital at Belagavi: a cross sectional study
... However, the data regarding etiology of LGIB remains unexplored as is scarce in the Indian subcontinent as most of the studies of LGIB have been reported in Western populations and there has been limited number of ...
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Urgent Surgical Management of Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding with Intraoperative Colonoscopy: A Case Report
... Lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB) is defined as bleeding from a source distal to the Ligament of ...the bleeding, the diagnostic and therapeutic means of the patient’s reception ...
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Overt Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding and Pseudotumor: A Rare Presentation of Cytomegalovirus Infection
... Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a ubiquitous organism and can infect the lung, eye, gastrointestinal tract, brain, etc., with most being subclinical and asymptomatic. In an immuno- compromised patient, CMV infection of ...
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Rethinking an Algorithm: The Utility of the Techinicium 99 m Labeled Red Cell (RBC) Scanning for Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding (LGIB)
... A large review of the data on radiolabeled RBC scan- ning, by Zucker et al., yielded the percentages of “cor- rect” scans from zero to 96% [6]. The confirmation of the 99 m-Tc labeled RBC scan’s results occurred through ...
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Multidetector computed tomography in acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding
... acute lower GI bleeding from our surgical emergency department who benefited from MDCT scan at their ...active bleeding at the rectum and an actively bleeding rectal source at the rectoscopy, ...
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Lower gastrointestinal bleeding—Computed Tomographic Angiography, Colonoscopy or both?
... post-interventional bleeding were effectively treated with ...post-polypectomy bleeding for most patients ...active bleeding on CTA required surgery for bleeding ...active bleeding and ...
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Endoscopic Hemostasis of Nonvariceal Gastrointestinal Bleeding
... of lower gastrointestinal bleeding is 8% - 10%, lower than that of upper gastrointestinal bleed- ing ...[21]. Gastrointestinal endoscopy is useful for identification of the ...
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Incidence and risk factors for anastomotic bleeding in lower gastrointestinal surgery
... common lower gastrointestinal anas- tomosis complications are leakage and dehiscence, stric- tures, fistulas and bleeding [1, ...anastomotic bleeding are not as well ...motic bleeding ...
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Massive rectal bleeding from acquired jejunal diverticula
... localize gastrointestinal bleed- ...a bleeding site with bleed- ing rate as low as ...detect bleeding rates greater than ...with lower gas- trointestinal haemorrhage is endoscopy. Upper and ...
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PHARMACEUTICAL EFFECTIVENESS AND SAFETY OF WARFARIN AND DABIGATRAN IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
... intracranial bleeding (primary endpoint) and the incidence of major bleeding (secondary ...had lower incidences of stroke, systemic embolism, and intracranial bleeding ...of bleeding in ...
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Critical appraisal of a fixed combination of esomeprazole and low dose aspirin in risk reduction
... ulcer bleeding after the use of low dose and were expected to require continuous treatment with low dose aspirin were randomly assigned to treatment with esomeprazole 20 mg/day and aspirin 100 mg/day (n = 86) or ...
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Effects of Ranitidine and Pantoprazole on Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: A Randomized Double-Blind Clinical Trial
... pneumonia (CAP) and HAP in patients without mechanical ventilation (3, 10). Minao and colleagues conducted a cohort study to compare pantoprazole and ranitidine in the development of VAP. They reported that the incidence ...
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Prognostic impact of gastrointestinal bleeding and expression of PTEN and Ki 67 on primary gastrointestinal stromal tumors
... GI: gastrointestinal; GIST: gastrointestinal stromal tumor; H & E: hematoxylin and eosin; ICC: interclass correlation coefficient; IgG: immunoglobulin G; IHC: immunohistochemistry; IM: imatinib ...
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Metastases from renal cell carcinoma presenting as gastrointestinal bleeding: two case reports and a review of the literature
... A 67 year-old male with a past history of angina and arthritis presented with a one week history of melaena and lethargy. He was found to be anaemic (Hb 6.7 g/dl, MCV 92.2 fl). Endoscopy revealed moderate haemor- rhagic ...
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Short-term mortality after perforated or bleeding peptic ulcer among elderly patients: a population-based cohort study
... upper gastrointestinal bleeding, which includes – but is not confined to – bleeding peptic ...testinal bleeding among young patients is more likely to be caused by lesions induced by excess ...
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Bleeding ‘downhill’ esophageal varices associated with benign superior vena cava obstruction: case report and literature review
... actual bleeding from downhill ...variceal bleeding, and should be applied on the proximal end of the ...active bleeding, no endoscopic intervention was ...her bleeding and clinical ...
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Efficacy and safety of proton pump inhibitors for stress ulcer prophylaxis in critically ill patients: a systematic review and meta analysis of randomized trials
... Prior meta-analyses examined the effect of PPIs com- pared to H2RAs for stress ulcer prophylaxis [11–14]. Our meta-analysis included more trials than other meta- analyses on this topic (19 trials enrolling 2117 ...
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Comorbidities affect risk of nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding
... upper gastrointestinal bleed were defined a priori for erosions/ulcer- ation, varices, angiodysplasia, fistula/trauma and coagulopathy, and code lists derived for diagnoses and medications that might be associated ...
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