Pretreatment Gastric Lavage Reduces Postoperative Bleeding after Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection for Gastric Neoplasms.

For patients receiving endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), there is urgent need pertaining to the prevention of postoperative bleeding. We conducted a retrospective propensity score-matched study that evaluated whether pre-ESD gastric lavage prevents postoperative bleeding after ESD for gastric...

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Main Authors: Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Masayuki Kurosaki, Yuka Takahashi, Jun Itakura, Ken Ueda, Shoko Suzuki, Yutaka Yasui, Nobuharu Tamaki, Natsuko Nakakuki, Hitomi Takada, Masako Ueda, Tsuguru Hayashi, Konomi Kuwabara, Kenta Takaura, Mayu Higuchi, Yasuyuki Komiyama, Tsubasa Yoshida, Namiki Izumi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4752263?pdf=render