High risk stigmata and treatment strategy for acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding: a nationwide study in Japan.
Tomonori AokiEiji SadashimaKatsumasa KobayashiAtsushi YamauchiAtsuo YamadaJun OmoriTakashi IkeyaTaiki AoyamaNaoyuki TominagaYoshinori SatoTakaaki KishinoNaoki IshiiTsunaki SawadaMasaki MurataAkinari TakaoKazuhiro MizukamiKen KinjoShunji FujimoriTakahiro UotaniMinoru FujitaHiroki SatoYoku HayakawaMitsuhiro FujishiroMitsuru KaiseNaoyoshi Nagatanull nullPublished in: Endoscopy (2024)
A population-level endoscopy dataset allowed us to identify high risk endoscopic SRH and propose a simple endoscopic treatment strategy for ALGIB. Unlike upper gastrointestinal bleeding, the rebleeding risks for ALGIB depend on colonic location, bleeding etiology, and treatment modality.