Gastrointestinal Bleeding Diagnosis and Treatment

BACKGROUND: Tranexamic acid reduces surgical bleeding and reduces death due to bleeding in patients with trauma. Meta-analyses of small trials show that tranexamic acid might decrease deaths from gastrointestinal bleeding. We aimed to assess the effects of tranexamic acid in patients with gastrointestinal bleeding. ME…

AIM: To evaluate 20 adults with intussusception and to clarify the cause, clinical features, diagnosis, and management of this uncommon entity. METHODS: A retrospective review of patients aged > 18 years with a diagnosis of intestinal intussusception between 2000 and 2008. Patients with rectal prolapse, prolapse of or…

• SAVAŞ YAKAN

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• MEHMET HACİYANLI

Assessment of transit through the gastrointestinal tract provides useful information regarding gut physiology and patho-physiology. Although several methods are available, each has distinct advantages and limitations. Recently, an ingestible wire-less motility capsule (WMC), similar to capsule video endoscopy, has bec…

• AŞKIN ERDOĞAN

BACKGROUND AND AIM: With the introduction of H2 receptor antagonists and proton pump inhibitors, the incidence of elective surgery for peptic ulcer (PU) diseases has decreased, although complications of PU such as perforation and bleeding have remained fairly constant. The purpose of this study was to identify the ris…

• BÜLENT ÜNAL

The Endoscopy Computer Vision Challenge (EndoCV) is a crowd-sourcing initiative to address eminent problems in developing reliable computer aided detection and diagnosis endoscopy systems and suggest a pathway for clinical translation of technologies. Whilst endoscopy is a widely used diagnostic and treatment tool for…

• ALPTEKİN TEMİZEL

Ingestible wireless capsule endoscopy is an emerging minimally invasive diagnostic technology for inspection of the GI tract and diagnosis of a wide range of diseases and pathologies. Medical device companies and many research groups have recently made substantial progresses in converting passive capsule endoscopes to…

• MEHMET TURAN

BACKGROUND: The objectives of this study were to provide sunitinib to patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) who were otherwise unable to obtain it and to collect broad safety and efficacy data from a large population of patients with advanced GIST after imatinib failure. (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NC…

• ŞUAYİB YALÇIN

Kurt, Mevlut M.D.; Disibeyaz, Selcuk M.D.; Akdogan, Meral M.D.; Sasmaz, Nurgul M.D.; Aksu, Salih M.D.; Haznedaroglu, İbrahim Celalettin M.D. Author Information

• SALİH AKSU

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A 63-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with rectal bleeding. He had a history of Billroth II surgery for bleeding peptic ulcer disease 30 years ago. He had no other medical problems, and was receiving no medications. His hemoglobin level was 5.6 g/dL. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed fresh blood and c…

• İBRAHİM KORAL ÖNAL

AIM: To investigate the role of second-look laparoscopy in patients with acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI). METHODS: Between January 2000 and November 2005, 71 patients were operated for the treatment of AMI. The indications for a second-look were low flow state, bowel resection and anastomosis or mesenteric thromboembo…

• FATİH YANAR
• HAKAN TEOMAN YANAR