Seminars in interventional radiology
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Semin Intervent Radiol · Mar 2020
ReviewGastrointestinal Bleeding on Call: Questions and Answers and One Person's Opinions.
Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding represents one of the more morbid forms of hemorrhage that interventional radiologists deal with on an on-call basis. Bleeding from the GI tract takes many forms and has many etiologies. ⋯ Embolization must be performed in specific ways, however, in an effort to decrease the risk of bowel ischemia; this also requires choosing the right patients in whom to perform embolization procedures. This article will provide a discussion on when to perform embolization and how, what to do with specific patient populations such as those with coagulopathy, and which patients should be considered for emergent treatment versus those that can be postponed.