background: northern regions of iran have been encountered to dominate malignancies of gastrointestinal (gi) tract. we came to examine the total excess mortality due to the gi cancer in mazandaran province. methods: socio-demographic and clinical data of 484 patients with gi cancer collected during the years 1990-1991were available from babol cancer registry. patients were followed up for 15 ye...

Hypoxemia is the most common adverse event that happened during gastrointestinal endoscopy. To estimate risk of hypoxemia prior to endoscopy, American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) classification scores were used as a major predictive factor. But the accuracy of ASA scores for predicting hypoxemia incidence was doubted here, considering that the classification system ignores much information ...

MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS 1 ESGE recommends in patients with acute upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage (UGIH) the use of Glasgow–Blatchford Score (GBS) for pre-endoscopy risk stratification. Patients GBS ≤ are at very low rebleeding, mortality within 30 days, or needing hospital-based intervention and can be safely managed as outpatients outpatient endoscopy. Strong recommendation, moderate quality ev...

GOAL To review the literature on the significance, risk factors, and management of occult and gross gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding in patients on antiplatelets and/or anticoagulants. STUDY Relevant original and review articles and their bibliographies were analyzed. Estimates of risks and therapeutic outcomes were obtained from randomized trials, whereas risk factor identification was gathere...

BACKGROUND Helicobacter Pylori infection has been strongly associated with upper gastrointestinal (GI) disease, especially duodenal ulcer. Endoscopy or contrast radiography is needed to diagnose and appropriately manage peptic ulcer disease. These diagnostic procedures, however, are time consuming and expensive; endoscopy is invasive and contrast radiography cannot help in the diagnosis of H py...