LONG BEACH, Calif. -- People with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) faced higher rates of potentially fatal gastrointestinal bleeding, a retrospective study found. Those with stage 5 CKD had a 40% ...
Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012;6(2):211-221. Finally, a prospective case series analysis which enrolled 20,621 patients undergoing PCI for all indications from the year 2000 to 2010, across a ...
Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...
Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is a common and potentially life-threatening condition that requires prompt and accurate diagnosis. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) and colonoscopy are the primary ...
Dual-energy CT demonstrated non-inferior diagnostic performance with an increased sensitivity and specificity compared to conventional triphasic CT in the detection of gastrointestinal bleeding and ...
ORLANDO, FL—Most physicians tend not to restart warfarin treatment after a gastrointestinal hemorrhage in patients with chronic kidney (CKD) or end-stage renal disease (ESRD), even though the risk of ...