Efficacy of ankaferd blood stopper application on non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Management of Non-Variceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding is unique from variceal bleeding in terms of patient characteristics, management, rebleeding rates, and prognosis, and should be managed differently. The majority of nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeds will not rebleed once treated successfully. The incidence is 80 to 90% of all upper gastrointestinal bleeds and the mortality is between 5 to 10%...

Bleeding due to slippage of elastic band during variceal ligation: successful use of Ankaferd blood stopper.

Ankaferd blood stopper (ABS) is a hemostatic agent that induces clot formation by a special protein network which mainly causes powerful erythrocyte aggregation. The use of topical ABS as a hemostatic agent has been approved in Turkey for the management of dermal, external post-surgical and post-dental surgery bleeding. ABS has been successfully used in Dieulafoy lesion and bleeding from gastro...

Ankaferd Blood Stopper in GI bleeding: alternative for everything?

We read with great interest the article by Tuncer et al1 describing a case of fundal variceal hemorrhage that was managed with endoscopic administration of Ankaferd Blood Stopper (ABS). In the discussion section, they also claimed that ABS had an immediate hemostatic effect on arterial bleeding due to gastric polypectomy or spurting bleeding ulcers in cases not responsive to injection therapy o...

Safety and Efficacy of Ankaferd Blood Stopper in Dental Surgery

The aim of this study was to assess retrospectively the hemostatic efficacy and safety of the topical use of Ankaferd Blood Stopper (ABS) in the setting of dental surgery. Following the approval from of the Local Research Ethics Committee ABS as a hemostatic agent in Dentistry, ABS was topically applied by homogeneously spraying to the 25 patients during dental interventions. Based on this retr...