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For high-risk ulcer bleeding requiring early anticoagulant resumption, what endoscopic/clinical threshold prompts you to add adjunctive prophylactic hemostatic powder specifically to support earlier restart?

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Gastroenterology · Harvard Medical School

If there is a high-risk ulcer, I would treat it as indicated. If, at the end of treatment (whether with injection + thermal therapy/ clips, etc), I am not confident that I rendered effective treatment, then I would apply hemostatic powder.

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Gastroenterology · Beitman Robert G Office

When I’m faced with a patient with a serious bleeding condition, whether it be an ulcer or other G.I. problem I feel free to inject and clip or use the argon plasma coagulator. If bleeding varices I’m particularly worried about re bleeds so I will band and often time and other modalities. In terms o...

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