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Filter by:Infants with congenital heart disease often require an intervention during their first year of life. Infants are generally admitted to a cardiac intensive care unit and are routinely prescribed stress ulcer prophylaxis to decrease acid release from the stomach to prevent stress ulcer formation. However, these medicines may not be safe and could put infants at increased risk for hospital-acquired infections, necrotizing enterocolitis and alteration to the infant's microbiome. The investigators plan to assess the feasibility of conducting a prospective, blinded randomized control trial to determine the safety of withholding stress ulcer prophylaxis in critically ill infants with congenital heart disease. In addition, the investigators plan to examine the changes to the infant's microbiome through oral, gastric and stool samples and compare hospital-acquired infections.
This study evaluates the safety and efficacy of 24-hour vs 72-hour octreotide infusion after variceal banding in cirrhotic patients with bleeding esophageal varices.
Patients with severe hematochezia (bright red blood per rectum) may have a bleeding source proximal to the colon. Visualization of the entire gastrointestinal tract using a second-generation colon capsule endoscopy system could improve diagnostic yields and form the basis for a new approach to early diagnosis that could change guidelines and practice management in these patients. The hypothesis of this study is that urgent colon capsule endoscopy will have higher rates of lesion localization and diagnosis and reduced time to diagnosis than the standard tagged red blood cell scanning and/or angiography. In this study, the eligible patients with severe hematochezia are enrolled to undergo an evaluation with the capsule endoscopy in addition to the standard tests including a tagged RBC scan and/or an angiogram. The outcomes in terms of diagnostic yields of the capsule endoscopy will be compared to the standard tests.
This is an observational, retrospective, analytical, and multicenter study conducted at 17 hospitals. Our research aims to assess the effectiveness of Hemospray® in patients with gastrointestinal bleeding in clinical practice. Besides, we aim to detect predictors of treatment failure defined as unsuccessful immediate hemostasis or rebleeding.
Studies showed that in cases of gastrointestinal bleeding, injection tranexamic acid decreasing the risk of death and the need of surgical intervention. However, the quality of most clinical trials were not good and the results were not significant. Injection tranexamic acid does not become one of the treatment option in the international guidelines nor in national consensus, so the effectiveness and the safety of its use in the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding remains unclear and not routinely used. In Indonesia, injection tranexamic acid in gastrointestinal bleeding is limitedly used and recorded. Therefore, a clinical trial study of injection tranexamic acid is required to assess the effectiveness and the safety in the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding.
This phase II trial studies how well isatuximab works in treating patients with primary amyloidosis that has come back or does not respond to treatment. Monoclonal antibodies, such as isatuximab, may interfere with the ability of cancer cells to grow and spread.
To test the activity of a polyglucosamine (PG) together with a Standard Management protocol (SM) on the occult and obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB) and the clinical symptoms in patients suffering from colonic diverticulitis (CD).
Lower gastrointestinal bleeding occurs distal to the ligament of treitz and may involve the small bowel, colon and rectum . Active lower gastrointestinal bleeding is a common, potentially life threatening medical presentation that can be challenging to localize and treat . There are many diseases that may cause lower gastrointestinal bleeding, including angiodysplasia, diverticulosis, benign or malignant bowel neoplasm, inflammatory bowel disease, ischemic bowel disease, and infectious bowel disease. Often, gastrointestinal bleeding will stop spontaneously, but in approximately 25% of patients, bleeding is massive or recurrent, requiring imaging localization and directed therapy.
This is a multi-center randomized controlled trial examining the use of Video Capsule Endoscopy (VCE) to discharge low-moderate risk patients with suspected upper gastrointestinal bleeds (UGIB) from the Emergency Department (ED.) The investigators will enroll 100 subjects at 4 sites who present with signs of hemodynamically stable UGIBs and compare VCE risk assessment to an Active Control (AC) group who receive inpatient upper endoscopy (EGD).
Transesophageal echocardiography is commonly used during cardiac surgery. Complications of transesophageal echocardiography are rare (1,2%), but are often underestimated and can lead to unrecognized blood loss and site of infection. This study wants to assess the mucosa of pharynx, upper larynx, esophagus and stomach prior to and after echo probe insertion during cardiac surgery with endoscopy.