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What is your approach to the management of chronic GI bleeding from AVMs in an elderly patient on DOAC for atrial fibrillation?

Especially if Watchman is an option, which would still require temporary anticoagulation post-procedure.

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How do you manage anticoagulation/antiplatelet therapies with strong indications for uninterrupted therapy in setting of urgent procedures?

For example, anticoagulation for recent, significant PE or dual antiplatelet therapy for recent MI, but requiring urgent procedures such as biopsy of ...

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How do you decide which patients with upper GI bleeds should be monitored on telemetry?

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Would you ever consider switching a patient with an LVAD from warfarin to Eliquis, such as in the setting of recurrent GI bleeds?

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How long do you recommend waiting after variceal bleeding and banding before a transesophageal echocardiogram can be performed safely?

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Would you consider sotalol to be a suitable non-selective beta blocker for primary prevention of variceal bleeding in a patient who requires sotalol for treatment of arrhythmia in the setting of Fontan-associated liver disease and clinically significant portal hypertension?

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Lancet (London, England), 2019 Mar 22

β blockers to prevent decompensation of cirrhosis in patients with clinically significant portal hypertension (PREDESCI): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial.

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.), 2023 Oct 23

AASLD Practice Guidance on risk stratification and management of portal hypertension and varices in cirrhosis.

The New England journal of medicine, 2023 Nov 02

Thalidomide for Recurrent Bleeding Due to Small-Intestinal Angiodysplasia.

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