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 ...