Outcomes of Endoscopic Intervention for Overt Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Severe Thrombocytopenia.

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Outcomes of Endoscopic Intervention for Overt Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Severe Thrombocytopenia.

Moritz Binder, Elizabeth Rajan, Louis M Wong Kee Song, David H Bruining, Badr Al Bawardy, Manuel Bonfim Braga Neto, Guilherme Piovezani Ramos, Nayantara Coelho-Prabhu, Navtej S Buttar, Mark V Larson, Barham K Abu Dayyeh, Dharma Sunjaya, Paul Hampel

Gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) in the setting of thrombocytopenia raises concerns about endoscopic procedure risk. We aimed to assess the safety and outcomes of endoscopy for overt GIB in the setting of severe thrombocytopenia in liver cirrhosis (LC) and non-liver cirrhosis (NLC).

Publisher URL: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2018.01.028

DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2018.01.028

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