Medically reviewed by Qin Rao, MD Symptoms of GI bleeding include stomach pain, vomiting blood, or having black, tarry stool.Peptic ulcers are the leading cause of upper GI bleeding, while ...

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 that ...

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Routine administration of erythromycin before EGD in patients with acute UGIH cannot be recommended; however, selected patients who are at risk of having a lot of residual blood clots in the gastric ...

New guidelines regarding medications for gastrointestinal bleeding were jointly released by the American College of Gastroenterology and the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology on March 21. This ...

In the study of over 200 patients, 90.1% of those who received TC-325 had their bleeding controlled within 30 days, as compared to 81.4% of those who received standard treatment, meeting criteria for ...

SHORTLY after World War II the therapy of acute massive upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage changed radically throughout this country. Repeated generous whole-blood transfusions and early feeding ...