Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics
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Aliment. Pharmacol. Ther. · Jul 2011
Meta AnalysisMeta-analysis: erythromycin before endoscopy for acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
Studies evaluating the effect of erythromycin on patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) had been reported, but the results were inconclusive. ⋯ Prophylactic erythromycin is useful for patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding to decrease the amount of blood in the stomach and reduce the need for second endoscopy, amount of blood transfusion. It may shorten the length of hospital stay, but its effects on mortality need further larger trials to be confirmed.