Correction to: Diagnosis and management of acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding: European Society Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) GuidelineEndoscopy 2021; 53(08): 850-868DOI: 10.1055/a-1496-8969

  SUMMARY Bleeding of esophageal varices have a high mortality rate, and medical management is usualy unsuccessful. Surgical methods such as vascular ligation or shunting are expensive. High risk procedures with high mortality. Endoscopic sclerotherapy was applied in 104 patients with acute bleeding of esophageal varices during a period of 5 years in a prospettive and retrospective study. Th...

Warfarin is a coumarin anticoagulant, used widely for therapeutic and prophylactic anticoagulation. Though it is considered as a life saving medicine, it is associated with the significant adverse effects including intra-peritoneal bleeding, which have been very well documented in literature. However, presentation of warfarin induced intraperitoneal bleeding as an acute appendicitis has not bee...

Chronic complications of acute appendicitis managed in a conservative manner are not frequent. We present a case of acute lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage in a young patient with a previous acute appendicitis without surgical intervention. The colonoscopy detected an appendicular bleeding which was surgically treated. The anatomopathological diagnosis was granulomatous appendicitis. The clinic...

B leeding initiates a cascade of events that increase morbidity and mortality among patients undergoing percu-taneous coronary intervention (PCI). Acute loss of blood impacts circulatory volume and can potentiate and perpetuate shock. In addition, bleeding leads to anemia and transfusion of blood products, which promote inflammation and untoward cardiovascular effects, especially in the setting...

prediction of the outcome and severity of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (ugib) has significant importance in patient care, disposition, and determining the need for emergent endoscopy. recent international recommendations endorse using scoring systems for management of non-variceal ugib patients. to date, different scoring systems have been developed for predicting the risk of 30-day mo...

BACKGROUND This study describes the burden of bleeding oesophageal varices at the main tertiary referral centre in Accra. DESIGN Retrospective design to describe the endoscopic spectrum and review mortality data following acute upper gastro-intestinal bleeding at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. Endoscopic data was reviewed in the Endoscopy Unit between 2007 and 2010. Mortality data was collat...

AIM To investigate the long-term prognosis in peptic ulcer patients continuing taking antithrombotics after ulcer bleeding, and to determine the risk factors that influence the prognosis. METHODS All clinical data of peptic ulcer patients treated from January 1, 2009 to January 1, 2014 were retrospectively collected and analyzed. Patients were divided into either a continuing group to continu...

Acute upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is one of the most common medical emergencies and most cases require urgent medical assessment. Half of all cases are due to peptic ulcer and this article focuses on non-variceal bleeding. The priority, following emergency hospital admission, is to support the circulation of the shocked patient rather than to identify the source of bleeding. After resu...

leukemia is a neoplastic disease with early oral and periodontal manifestations such as ulceration, infection, bleeding and gingival hyperplasia. this paper describes a 39-year-old pregnant woman with a diagnosis of acute myelomonocytic leu-kemia (aml), with gingival enlargement in the upper and lower jaws. a gingival biopsy was performed, followed by a complete blood count and peripheral blood...