Acute gastrointestinal bleeding and perforation are important clinical concerns, traditionally associated with high mortality rates. Advances in clinical practice over the past two decades are ...

Searches, and references from the previous systematic review, [1] provided 65 studies with 244,329 patients in total, of whom 61,067 experienced an upper gastrointestinal bleed or perforation ...

Background: Some people who suffer an upper gastrointestinal bleed or perforation die. The mortality rate was estimated at 12% in studies published before 1997, but a systematic survey of more ...

A man has suffered life-changing injuries after two of his colleagues allegedly injected air into his rectum. Two Frenchmen ...

1. Schmidt A, Fuchs KH, Caca K, Küllmer A, Meining A: The endoscopic treatment of iatrogenic gastrointestinal perforation. Dtsch Arztebl Int 2016; 113: 121–8 VOLLTEXT 2. Mennigen R, Senninger N ...