The Outpatient Bleeding Risk Index

The outpatient bleeding risk index: validation of a tool for predicting bleeding rates in patients treated for deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.

BACKGROUND Long-term anticoagulation prevents recurrent thrombosis in patients with idiopathic deep venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolism, but with a risk of clinically important so-called major bleeding. Physician- and patient-based decisions on the optimal duration of therapy are sensitive to the bleeding risk. The Outpatient Bleeding Risk Index potentially provides a means of calculating t...

Association between the Risk Factors for Atherosclerosis and Diverticular Bleeding

Background and purpose: Diverticulosis is a major health problem in middle-aged and older adults. The cause of bleeding in the diverticulum is not clear, but arteriolar changes are considered as the main pathogenesis of diverticular bleeding. This study aimed at investigating the relationship between the risk factors for atherosclerosis and diverticular bleeding. Materials and methods: In this...

Does the Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index accurately identify low risk patients eligible for outpatient treatment?

INTRODUCTION The pulmonary embolism severity index (PESI) and the recently derived simplified PESI prognostic model have been developed to estimate the risk of 30-day mortality in patients with acute PE. We sought to assess if the PESI and simplified PESI prognostic models can accurately identify adverse events and to determine the rates of events in patients treated as outpatients. METHODS A...

Outpatient diagnosis of endometrial cancer in women with postmenopausal bleeding

Bronchoscopy and bleeding risk.

To examine the airways in a minimally invasive fashion, bronchoscopy is the most used technique worldwide. Although the first bronchoscopy was a therapeutic one for the removal of a foreign body, until the 1970s the technique was more or less for diagnostic indications [1]. However, in recent years, bronchoscopy has experienced rapid development. More and more interventional techniques have bee...