An upper endoscopy (or EGD) is a procedure that allows your doctor to examine your esophagus, stomach, and duodenum (part of your small intestine) in order to diagnose and treat upper GI tract ...

Only 40 percent of those patients offered endoscopy actually underwent the procedure. None required intervention. One patient with gastritis by endoscopy died from disseminated (non-upper GI ...

The approach to transfusion for patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding has varied over the years. For a time, the focus was to avoid or delay transfusions because of the possibility ...

Guidelines from national and international professional societies on upper gastrointestinal bleeding highlight the important clinical issues but do not always identify specific management strategies ...

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Conclusions The detailed analysis of the active global bacterial communities from the five distinct sites of the upper GI tract allowed for the first time the differentiation ... DHP and PM supervised ...

In 5-year data recently presented at the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium (ASCO GI), this benefit was confirmed with longer follow-up, showing a 5-year OS ...

The Singaporean woman left in a vegetative state after a botched gastroscopy in South Korea has returned to Singapore just in ...

Or you may have an upper GI endoscopy so your provider can look at the area ... The simplest way to fix stenosis is with a procedure called endoscopic dilation. To help prevent stenosis, follow your ...

When a woman underwent an outpatient procedure to remove cancer from her small intestine, a suspected perforation occurred ...

A procedure used to visualize internal organs ... If a sore is in the duodenum, it is called a duodenal ulcer. How Peptic Ulcers Are Treated Upper Gastrointestinal Series An X-ray examination of the ...