BACKGROUND Gastrointestinal bleeding is the most frequent emergency for gastroenterologists. Despite advances in management, an improvement in mortality is still not evident. AIM Determining time trends of gastrointestinal bleeding hospitalization and outcomes from 2001 to 2010 in the Veneto Region (Italy). PATIENTS AND METHODS Data of patients admitted with gastrointestinal bleeding from V...

INTRODUCTION In every case of upper gastrointestinal bleeding suspicion, an endoscopic examination ought to be performed as a matter of urgency. Finding active bleeding, a visible non-bleeding vessel or a lesion with an adherent clot should be followed by application of an available method of endoscopic therapy. The aim of the study was to compare the effectiveness of various endoscopic treatme...

Upper gastrointestinal bleeding is an uncommon but potentially serious, life-threatening condition in children. Rapid assessment, stabilization, and resuscitation should precede all diagnostic modalities in unstable children. The diagnostic approach includes history, examination, laboratory evaluation, endoscopic procedures, and imaging studies. The clinician needs to determine carefully whethe...

Background: Upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) is a common gastrointestinal emergency. In the place where urgent esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) is unavailable, empirical pharmacological therapy with vasoactive drugs for variceal bleeding or proton pump inhibitors for nonvariceal bleeding is recommended. However, the values of using clinical data for predicting the types of UGIB are unclea...