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the study included 400 patients recruited from Gastroenterology as well as general internal medicine clinic at Internal Medicine department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, Egypt. After initial evaluation, every participant was randomly assigned to one of four equal treatment regimens
Biliary anastomotic stricture is a common complication of after end-to-end biliary anastomosis. Magnetic recanalization is a promising way to establish connection of biliary tract after stenosis or completed obstruction. This study is designed to investigate the safety and efficacy of magnetic
Gastritis is a very common disease in children. The main presentation of children with gastritis is recurrent abdominal pain and dyspepsia or vomiting. Young children may have hematemesis or melena as presentation. Drug induced or food related gastritis presents usually with acute symptoms but
After 40 years of considering gastrointestinal bleeding as upper or lower and largely ignoring the small intestine, there is accumulating evidence that the conventional approach to the assessment of non-hematemesis gastrointestinal bleeding (NHGIB) could be improved by early deployment of a video
Patients and methods Study cohort Patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (AUGIB) who were admitted to Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital between January 2011 and January 2012 were screened. Inclusion criteria were (i) over 20 years of age and (ii) patients with high-risk peptic ulcer
4.c. OBJECTIVES: The main objective of this prospective, randomized study is to evaluate whether the substitution of VKA therapy for low molecular weight heparin (bemiparin) in patients who have had an episode of gastrointestinal bleeding and have the indication for anticoagulant therapy, is
The use of band ligation for endoscopy during the attack of hematemesis is a novel practice as opposed to injection sclerotherapy.
Background
Acute gastrointestinal bleeding is a common medical emergency worldwide. In Hong Kong it accounts for about 5% of all admissions through the Accident and Emergency Department1. The most common cause is bleeding from a peptic ulcer.
Ulcers bleed when an artery at the base of the ulcer is