Outcome of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients on anticoagulation therapy

Backgrounds and aims: Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) is still a serious event with significant mortality especially in high risk patients treated by antithrombotic drugs. We retrospectively analyzed the clinical outcome of our acute upper GIB patients who were on oral anticoagulant (OA) treatment at the time of the onset of their acute GIB episodes. Patients and methods: During a two year period (2005, 2006) 13 acute upper GIB patients were admitted to our GIB subintensive care unit who were taking anticoagulants. The reasons for anticoagulation therapy were as follows: atrial fibrillation 4 pts., a…