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Bleeding time in uremia: a useful test to assess clinical bleeding.

Modified Ivy bleeding time (template) and platelet aggregation to ADP, epinephrine, and collagen were studied in 26 uremic patients who had not recently ingested anti-platelet drugs. Regardless of the aggregating agent used, the abnormalities in platelet aggregation were often mild, even with advanced uremia, and frequently less severe than the effects of common anti-platelet drugs. The inhibition of collagen-induced aggregation was significantly correlated with both increased bleeding time and blood urea nitrogen. Platelet aggregation was not discriminative between clinically bleeding and non-bleeding groups of patients, but the bleeding time was helpful in this regard. In certain cases, the aggregometric patterns differed between drug-induced and uremic thrombocytopathies. Platelet aggregometry appears to be of little help clinically in assessing the severity of the uremic bleeding diathesis.

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Division and repair of the sphincteric mechanism at the gastric outlet in emergency operations for bleeding peptic ulcer. A new technique for use in combination with suture ligation of the bleeding point and highly selective vagotomy.

In three of 26 patients who were treated by highly selective vagotomy (HSV) plus suture of the bleeding point for massive hemorrhage from peptic ulceration, access to the ulcer could not be obtained by means of a duodenotomy or gastrotomy which spared the pylorus. Instead, a wide gastroduodenotomy was performed, the artery in the base of the ulcer underrun and HSV performed. The gastroduodenotomy incision was closed longitudinally, rather than as a pyloroplasty. In this way, the integrity of the antral mill and of the pyloric sphincter was restored. The patients were followed up for six months, one year and three years respectively, and were found to be in good health, without clinical or radiological evidence of gastric retention or of recurrent ulceration. Thus the sphincteric mechanism at the exit of the stomach can, like the anal sphincter, be divided and subsequently repaired with good restoration of function.

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The double contrast barium meal in patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding.

One hundred and seven patients admitted to a small general hospital with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding have been examined by the double contrast barium meal technique. The presumed bleeding site was identified in 75 cases (70%). Twenty-eight patients showed radiological evidence of recent or active bleeding. These were all examined within 24 h of the bleed and 18 (64%) continued to bleed or had a further bleed whereas of 79 patients who did not show radiological signs of recent or active bleeding only 10(13%) continued to bleed or had a further bleed. The radiological features of recent or active bleeding seen on the double contrast barium meal are: 1, Blood clot in an ulcer or adherent to a recently bleeding lesion. 2. An artery in the base of an ulcer. 3. Active bleeding during the course of the examination seen as a dynamic alteration or disturbance in the barium as it flows over the bleeding site.

Acute Disease

Risk factors for bleeding after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: ERCP is associated with adverse events, including bleeding, which occurs in up to 1.3% of cases. This meta-analysis aims to identify and quantify risk factors associated with post-ERCP bleeding. METHODS: A comprehensive literature search of electronic databases was conducted from inception to January 10, 2025. Studies were eligible if they used multivariate analysis to identify predictors of post-ERCP bleeding. Risk factors reported in at least 2 studies were pooled using a random-effects model to calculate odds ratios (ORs) with 95% CIs. A further subgroup analysis was performed, including risk factors for postsphincterotomy bleeding and postendoscopic papillectomy bleeding. RESULTS: Twenty-seven studies (4 prospective and 23 retrospective studies) comprising 149,870 patients were included, of whom 1865 experienced post-ERCP bleeding. Twenty potential risk factors were analyzed. The meta-analysis identified several factors significantly associated with increased odds of post-ERCP bleeding in the pooled adjusted analysis, including male gender (OR, 1.24; 95% CI, 1.05-1.46), anticoagulation therapy (OR, 2.75; 95% CI, 1.66-4.56), cirrhosis (OR, 2.54; 95% CI, 1.76-3.65), hemodialysis (OR, 5.82; 95% CI, 3.32-10.18), coagulopathy (OR, 11.01; 95% CI, 2.50-48.40), endoscopic sphincterotomy (EST) (OR, 3.19; 95% CI, 1.69-6.01), precut sphincterotomy (OR, 2.24; 95% CI, 1.52-3.30), and intraoperative bleeding (OR, 2.57; 95% CI, 1.80-3.66). Several factors in the pooled adjusted analysis were not found to be significantly associated with higher odds of post-ERCP bleeding, including high body mass index (BMI), nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use, antiplatelet therapy, thrombocytopenia, common bile duct stones, cholangitis, endoscopic papillary balloon dilatation, and covered self-expandable metal stent insertion. CONCLUSIONS: This meta-analysis identified that the anticoagulation therapy, cirrhosis, hemodialysis, coagulation disorder, EST, precut sphincterotomy, and male gender are associated with increased odds of post-ERCP bleeding in the pooled adjusted analysis. Conversely, age, high BMI, cholangitis, choledocholithiasis, pancreatic duct stones, needle-knife sphincterotomy, NSAID use, and antiplatelet therapy were not significantly associated with higher odds of post-ERCP bleeding in the pooled adjusted analysis. Incorporating our results into a prediction model may assist in identifying patients at increased risk, optimizing informed consent, and guiding prevention and management strategies for post-ERCP bleeding.

Humans

Bivalirudin Versus Heparin in Low and Non-Low Bleeding Risk Patients Undergoing Primary PCI for STEMI: The BRIGHT-4 Trial.

BACKGROUND: In the BRIGHT-4 trial, among 6,016 patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with a radial artery approach, procedural anticoagulation with bivalirudin plus a post-PCI high-dose infusion for 2 to 4 hours reduced the 30-day primary composite outcome of all-cause death or Bleeding Academic Research Consortium (BARC) types 3 to 5 bleeding, as well as death and bleeding individually, compared with heparin monotherapy. OBJECTIVES: We sought to determine whether the benefits of bivalirudin apply principally to patients who are at low bleeding risk (LBR) as well as non-LBR. METHODS: In a prespecified analysis from BRIGHT-4, outcomes were examined by baseline bleeding risk, with LBR defined as a CRUSADE score <30. RESULTS: At baseline, 4,581 patients (76.1%) were categorized as LBR. Non-LBR patients had higher rates of the 30-day primary endpoint (8.6% vs 2.2%; HR: 4.08 [95% CI: 3.14-5.31]; P < 0.0001), driven by both greater mortality and BARC types 3 to 5 bleeding. In non-LBR patients, the primary outcome occurred in 8.1% of patients randomized to bivalirudin vs 9.2% of those randomized to heparin (difference: -1.1% [95% CI: -4.0% to 1.8%]; HR: 0.88 [95% CI: 0.62-1.26]). In LBR patients, the primary outcome occurred in 1.4% of patients randomized to bivalirudin vs 2.9% of those randomized to heparin (difference: -1.5% [95% CI: -2.3% to -0.6%]; HR: 0.49 [95% CI: 0.32-0.75]) (Pabsolute interaction = 0.81; Prelative interaction = 0.04). The effects of bivalirudin compared with heparin in reducing all-cause death were as robust in LBR patients compared with non-LBR patients (Pabsolute interaction = 0.67; Prelative interaction = 0.06). CONCLUSIONS: Among patients with STEMI undergoing primary PCI with radial artery access, procedural anticoagulation with bivalirudin plus a high-dose post-PCI infusion for 2 to 4 hours reduced the 30-day risk of all-cause death and major bleeding in patients at low bleeding risk as well as in patients at higher-risk of bleeding. (Bivalirudin With Prolonged Full Dose Infusion Versus Heparin Alone During Emergency PCI [BRIGHT-4; NCT03822975]).

Humans

Failure of cyanoacrylate tissue glue (Flucrylate, MBR4197) to stop bleeding from experimental canine gastric ulcers.

A plastic tissue adhesive, trifluoroisopropyl 2-cyanoacrylate (Flucrylate (TM), MBR4197), was tested for hemostatic efficacy in acute laparotomy experiments using a canine model of acute bleeding gastric ulcer. An improved delivery system suitable for endoscopic use was developed. Hemostatic efficacy of the adhesive was tested in both briskly bleeding ulcers and in oozing ulcers after partial treatment with a heater probe. In pilot studies at laparotomy, primary and adjunctive cyanoacrylate therapy of 81 bleeding ulcers were evaluated in seven unheparinized foxhounds. Hemostasis was produced in 11% of ulcers treated with cyanoacrylate alone and in 31% of ulcers treated with cyanoacylate as an adjunctive after partial heater-probe treatment; no sham-treated control ulcers stopped bleeding under the conditions of the experiment. To evaluate Flucrylate (TM) using out standard heparinized ulcer model, a randomized study was performed in six heparinized foxhounds at laparotomy. Ulcers were randomized to treatment with cyanoacrylate alone, adjuctive cyanoacrylate, heater probe alone or untreated control. Sham-treated control ulcers or ulcers treated with cyanoacrylate alone did not stop bleeding; 42% of ulcers treated with cyanoacrylate as an adjunctive stopped bleeding; all ulcers treated with a heater probe stopped bleeding. In this experimental model of acute bleeding gastric ulcer, trifluoroisopropyl 2-cyanoacrylate (Flucrylate(TM),MBR4197) did not stop severe bleeding and was unpredictable as an adjunctive treatment.

Animals

Template bleeding time and clinical hemorrhage in myeloproliferative disease.

In 32 patients with myeloproliferative disorders (MPD), correlations were made among clinical observations of hemorrhagic tendency, template Ivy bleeding time, and platelet aggregation studies. Bleeding time was commonly prolonged, particularly in myelofibrosis. In two cases, this prolongation appeared to reflect a defect in platelet function, which resulted in clinical bleeding. Prolongation of bleeding time did not correlate with degree of thrombocytosis. Two patients with thrombocytosis had serious clinical bleeding at a time when bleeding time was normal. Of the patients, 35% had abnormal findings from aggregation studies, but there was no correlation between aggregation studies and prolongation of bleeding time or clinical hemorrhage. We conclude that bleeding in MPD arises either from a defect in platelet function, which is reflected in a prolonged bleeding time, or from thrombocytosis.

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Clopidogrel Versus Dual-Antiplatelet Therapy for Long-Term Maintenance After Coronary Stenting in Ischemic and Bleeding Birisk Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes and Diabetes: A Prespecified Subgroup Analysis of the OPT-BIRISK Trial.

BACKGROUND: Among patients with acute coronary syndromes at both high bleeding and ischemic risk (birisk), extended clopidogrel monotherapy after 9 to 12&#x2009;months of dual-antiplatelet therapy reduces bleeding without increasing ischemia. Whether this benefit extends to birisk patients with diabetes is unknown. METHODS: This prespecified subgroup analysis of the OPT-BIRISK (Optimal Antiplatelet Therapy for High Bleeding and Ischemic Risk Patients) trial included birisk patients with acute coronary syndrome who had completed 9 to 12&#x2009;months of dual-antiplatelet therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention. Patients were then randomized 1:1 to 9&#x2009;months of clopidogrel&#x2009;plus&#x2009;placebo versus clopidogrel&#x2009;plus&#x2009;aspirin. Outcomes were compared by diabetes status. The primary end point was Bleeding Academic Research Consortium type 2, 3, or 5 bleeding at 9 months after randomization. The key secondary end point was major adverse cardiac and cerebral events, defined as a composite outcome of all-cause death, myocardial infarction, stroke, or clinically driven revascularization. RESULTS: Of 7758 patients, 4072 (52.5%) had diabetes. Clopidogrel monotherapy decreased Bleeding Academic Research Consortium type 2, 3, or 5 bleeding (2.1% versus 3.2%; hazard ratio [HR], 0.66 [95% CI, 0.45-0.97]) with no increase in major adverse cardiac and cerebral events (2.9% versus 3.6%; HR, 0.79 [95% CI, 0.56-1.12]) compared with clopidogrel plus aspirin in patients with diabetes. Outcomes were consistent in patients without diabetes, with no significant interactions by diabetes status. CONCLUSIONS: In birisk patients with acute coronary syndrome who were stable on dual-antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel plus aspirin for 9 to 12 months after percutaneous coronary intervention, clopidogrel monotherapy for an additional 9 months reduced clinically relevant bleeding without increasing ischemic events compared with continued dual-antiplatelet therapy, irrespective of diabetes status. REGISTRATION: URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov; Unique identifier: NCT03431142.

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Shortening of the bleeding time in rabbits by hydrocortisone caused by inhibition of prostacyclin generation by the vessel wall.

The effect of hydrocortisone on thrombocytopenic bleeding has been studied in rabbits using a jugular vein bleeding-time technique and a microvascular bleeding-time technique. An inverse relationship was found between the bleeding time and platelet count with both techniques in rabbits made thrombocytopenic by either X-irradiation or injection of heterologous platelet antiserum. Hydrocortisone shortened both bleeding times in thrombocytopenic animals when given in single large doses intravenously (25-100 mg/kg), in daily doses (6 mg/kg) intramuscularly, and shortened the jugular bleeding time when applied to the outside of the jugular vein or instilled intraluminally into the vein. This effect was also noted in normal animals. The effect on thrombocytopenic bleeding was dose related. When given daily, the effect was greater when hydrocortisone was given for 10 d than for 5 d. Both indomethacin and tranylcypromine also reduced the jugular vein bleeding time when instilled intraluminally into the jugular vein, whereas exogenously provided arachidonic acid reversed the effect of hydrocortisone but did not reverse the effect of indomethacin or tranylcypromine. Exogenously provided linoleic acid did not have any effect. Perfusion of the vessel segment with prostacyclin (PGI(2)) reversed the effect of intraluminally administered hydrocortisone, indomethacin, and tranylcypromine. Similarly, hydrocortisone, indomethacin, and tranylcypromine all reduced the rate of loss of fluid from a standard wound in isolated vessels emptied of blood and perfused with saline under constant pressure. PGI(2) reversed the action of these three agents, however, arachidonic acid reversed only the effect of hydrocortisone and did not reverse the effect of indomethacin and tranylcypromine. The generation of PGI(2)-like material and 6-keto-prostaglandinF(1) alpha from jugular vein strips was prevented by prior exposure of the animals or vessel wall to hydrocortisone. These results are compatible with the hypothesis that the vessel wall releases smooth muscle-relaxing prostaglandins when injured and that inhibition of prostaglandin formation by hydrocortisone enhances hemostasis by allowing vasoconstriction to be maintained.

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A prospective evaluation of injection sclerotherapy in the treatment of acute bleeding from esophageal varices.

In a 25 month study of massive upper-gastrointestinal hemorrhage, 64 patients were shown to have esophageal varices on emergency endoscopy. Twenty-four patients were actively bleeding from varices and were treated with a Sengstaken tube, and in 22 this was followed by emergency injection sclerotherapy using a rigid esophagoscope and general anesthesia. These 22 patients were followed prospectively and had 51 episodes of endoscopically proven active bleeding from esophageal varices which required Sengstaken tube control of hemorrhage during 36 separate admissions. This group included our total experience of injection sclerotherapy in acute variceal bleeding. The majority (14 of 22 patients) had alcoholic cirrhosis. Definitive control of variceal bleeding during the period of hospitalization was achieved in 33 hospital admissions (92%), usually with a single injection (27 hospital admissions: 75%). The results were satisfactory in 26 hospital admissions (72%). There were nine deaths (41% overall patient mortality rate), but no patient died primarily of variceal bleeding, and exsanguinating variceal bleeding was no longer a problem. The mortality rate per injection was 18%, and the mortality rate per hospital admission was 25%. Injection sclerotherapy is proposed as the emergency treatment of choice for patients with proven bleeding esophageal varices who do not stop bleeding on initial conservative treatment.

Acute Disease

Gastrointestinal bleeding in cases of ruptured cerebral aneurysms.

Among 1,000 cases of patients undergoing direct surgery on cerebral aneurysms, two, showed clear signs of preoperative, and 19 cases showed postoperative gastrointestinal bleeding. We have made a clinical analysis of various aspects of the 19 cases in which the bleeding developed postoperatively. 1. Gastrointestinal bleeding was most frequent postoperatively in cases of AComA aneurysms (4.3%) and ICA aneurysms (2.0%), and less common in MCA and ACA aneurysm cases. 2. Gastrointestinal bleeding was most frequently seen in those cases operated on between the third and seventh days after the last subarachnoid haemorrhage (8.9%) and was more common in cases with a relatively poor preoperative grade. 3. The development of such bleeding in cases with a good preoperative grade was due to problems with the surgical operation in most cases, although the influence of vasospasm must not be ignored. The development of bleeding in cases with a poor preoperative grade is thought to be due primarily to vasospasm and transitory brain damage to the hypothalamus and the orbital portion of the anterior lobe due to a haematoma caused by aneurysm rupture. 4. First, the location of gastrointestinal bleeding should be determined endoscopically and, if haemostasis is not achieved by coagulation, then the desirability of surgery should be considered early. Abdominal surgery may be performed.

Adult

Multiple bleeds in haemophilia A.

One hundred and eighty-one bleeding episodes involving two sites simultaneously were noted during a survey of 4935 bleeding episodes, an incidence of 3.7%. Elbows, knees and ankles were the commonest sites involved in double bleeds, while the thigh, upper arm and elbow were the commonest sites involved in the double bleeds needing most transfusions. The overall transfusion requirements were less than for single bleeds. The frequency of multiple bleeds correlated significantly with the overall bleeding frequency, but not with the number of days under observation.

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Patterns of bleeding in adolescents with severe haemophilia A.

Eighty-two boys with severe haemophilia A who spent some time at Lord Mayor Treloar College during 1973-7 were studied. All episodes of bleeding that occurred during term time were recorded, along with the number of transfusions. The bleeding frequency among these boys, most of them aged 10-17 years, increased steadily from 8,31 episodes/100 days in 1973 to 12,63 episodes/100 days in 1977. At the same time there was a steady fall in bleeding frequency with age. Altogether 24% of bleeding episodes were into the elbow joint, 22% into the knee, and 15% into the ankle. As the boys grew older the proportion of bleeding episodes in the legs declined and that in the arms increased. The overall results reflect the fact that special schools now see only the severest cases of haemophilia. The pattern of bleeding during adolescence suggests that concepts of management of arm bleeding need modifying.

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In vivo platelet retention in human bleeding-time wounds. II. Effect of aspirin ingestion.

PRB was studied in normal human subjects before and after aspirin ingestion. Aspirin ingestion resulted in a prolongation of individual bleeding times greater than 2.4 min (greater than 2 S.D. beyond the group mean before aspirin) in 62.5% of 48 paired studies. The relationship of platelets retained vs. time was linear during the first 3 min of bleeding before and after aspirin. The mean PRB decreased from 22.1 +/- 9.2 to 9.6 +/- 8.6 (p less than 0.001) after aspirin ingestion. Subjects whose bleeding time was prolonged greater than 2.4 min had a significantly higher mean PRB before aspirin and a significantly greater mean decrease in PRB after aspirin than those whose bleeding time was prolonged less than or equal to 2.4 min. Aspirin ingestion reduced the number of EDTA-irreversible clumped platelets present in wound blood approximately 50% during the second and third minute of bleeding, but large numbers of EDTA-reversible platelet clumps were observed in wound blood before and after aspirin. Although platelet retention was significantly decreased during the first 3 min of bleeding after aspirin, the percent of venous blood platelets present in wound blood just prior to the arrest of hemorrhage was equal before and after aspirin. These observations indicate that aspirin prolongs the bleeding time by decreasing platelet clumping and slowing the rate of platelet thrombus formation in severed blood vessels. The presence of platelet clumps in wound blood after aspirin ingestion indicates that alternative mechanisms of platelet aggregation, independent of the arachidonate pathway of prostaglandin synthesis, proceed in vivo unaltered by aspirin.

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