Acute gastrointestinal bleeding and perforation are important clinical concerns, traditionally associated with high mortality rates. Advances in clinical practice over the past two decades are ...

A meta-analysis of 17 randomized controlled trials of bevacizumab for the treatment of various solid tumors confirms an association with gastrointestinal perforation that led to implementation of ...

2 During the past three years 3 patients have been seen at the Pennsylvania Hospital with disseminated arteritis of varied etiology, which led to discrete intestinal ulceration, perforation ...

Paspatis GA, Dumonceau J, Barthet M, et al.: Diagnosis and management of iatrogenic endoscopic perforations: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy ( ESGE ) Position Statement. Endoscopy ...

A perforated bowel, or intestinal perforation, occurs when a hole forms in the wall of the small intestine or colon (large intestine). This allows the bowel's contents to leak into the abdominal ...

Searches, and references from the previous systematic review, [1] provided 65 studies with 244,329 patients in total, of whom 61,067 experienced an upper gastrointestinal bleed or perforation ...

However that may be, all study designs agree that mortality with upper gastrointestinal bleeding or perforation is clinically significant. We could see no clear reason for the different mortality ...