Sometimes, black stool can stem from harmless factors like diet or medication. However, it may also signal blood in the stool (melena) due to gastrointestinal bleeding or another potentially ...

A 75-year-old woman, who has since recovered, didn’t have the gastrointestinal bleeding that usually accompanies the ...

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The rate of cardiac injury as determined by cTnI in this study was 19%. In trying to identify any factors that may contribute to an overestimation of cardiac injury, we consider the use of cTnI ...

Introduction Failure to restart anticoagulant and antiplatelet medication appropriately after achieving haemostasis following an upper gastrointestinal bleed (UGIB) is associated with an increased ...

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Fred Hutch is integrating a new artificial intelligence (AI) technology, GI Genius, into colonoscopy scans to help evaluate ...