3 Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Objective While it is recommended that patients presenting with acute upper gastrointestinal ... bleeding, with the ...

The approach to transfusion for patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding has varied over the years. For a time, the focus was to avoid or delay transfusions because of the possibility ...

Upper gastrointestinal bleeding is the commonest acute admission to gastroenterology, and its causes are potentially preventable. We have minimal understanding of its socioeconomic distribution by ...

The trade-off of this approach is increased rates of bleeding, a third of which is from the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. GI bleeding after PCI occurs in approximately 1% of patients within 30 days ...

People can experience pain under the ribs in the upper left abdomen for many reasons. Some possible causes include gastrointestinal ... cause extensive internal bleeding. If a person has the ...

Aortoesophageal fistula (AEF) is an extremely rare cardiovascular etiology of hematemesis and upper gastrointestinal bleeding. As such ... AEF is a rare and life-threatening cardiovascular cause of ...

Intracranial bleeding following acute ischemic stroke has a major impact on patient ... In addition, infarct evolution and/or HT can cause dramatic neurologic deterioration. The frequency of HT is ...

The EPOS study 1 is the first prospective cohort study to show that accurate prediction of upper limb function is possible in the very acute phase of stroke by using simple bedside clinical tests but ...