Adverse Events during Bowel Preparation and Colonoscopy in Patients with Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding Compared with Elective Non-Gastrointestinal Bleeding.

Adverse Events during Bowel Preparation and Colonoscopy in Patients with Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding Compared with Elective Non-Gastrointestinal Bleeding.

There are limited data on the safety of colonoscopy in patients with lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB). We examined the various adverse events associated with colonoscopy in acute LGIB compared with non-GIB patients.Emergency hospitalized LGIB patients (n = 161) and age- and gender-matched non-...

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Main Authors: Ryota Niikura, Naoyoshi Nagata, Takuro Shimbo, Toshiyuki Sakurai, Tomonori Aoki, Shiori Moriyasu, Katsunori Sekine, Hidetaka Okubo, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Chizu Yokoi, Atsuo Yamada, Yoshihiro Hirata, Kazuhiko Koike, Junichi Akiyama, Naomi Uemura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4569066?pdf=render

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