Clinical characteristics and risk factors of active bleeding in colonic angiodysplasia among the Taiwanese.

CONCLUSION: Angiodysplastic lesions in Taiwanese patients were predominantly identified in the left-sided colon. Old age was an independent risk factor associated with active bleeding in colonic angiodysplasia.
PMID: 30348493 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: J Formos Med Assoc - October 19, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tsai YY, Chen BC, Chou YC, Lin JC, Lin HH, Huang HH, Huang TY Tags: J Formos Med Assoc Source Type: research