Bleeding from the lower gastrointestinal (GI) tract shouldn't be seen as simply a manageable adverse effect of oral anticoagulation (OAC) for atrial fibrillation (AF). Rather, it's a red flag that the ...

ATLANTA, Georgia — Patients with atrial fibrillation receiving anticoagulant therapy are more likely to experience gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding when treated with rivaroxaban than when treated with ...

Rivaroxaban (Xarelto; Bayer/Janssen) carries a significantly higher risk of gastrointestinal bleeding—including major GI bleeding—than do other direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) across a real-world ...

The risk for newly diagnosed gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is increased for patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD) versus peritoneal dialysis (PD), according to a study published online Jan. 2 in ...

Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding was observed in 3% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients, and a bleed developing during hospitalization was tied to greater mortality, a large New York cohort study found.

In a clinical practice guideline issued jointly by the American College of Gastroenterology and the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology and published online March 17 in the American Journal of ...

Some antidepressant medications carry a significant risk of upper-GI hemorrhage. The risk more than triples when the patient also takes certain painkillers. Data from four studies involving 153,000 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients implanted with a left ventricular assist device as destination therapy and those with a prior history ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- People with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) faced higher rates of potentially fatal gastrointestinal bleeding, a retrospective study found. Those with stage 5 CKD had a 40% ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified eight primary factors that increase the risk of a common bleeding complication after heart attack. Some of these factors are already ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rivaroxaban appeared associated with a higher rate of gastrointestinal bleeding than other direct oral ...