Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — Prophylactic placement of hemoclips following the removal of large colon polyps did not decrease the ...

A randomized controlled trial (RCT) of more than 4,000 people found that the risk for delayed bleeding after polypectomy was significantly reduced among persons who received a cold snare polypectomy.

Researchers at the Syracuse Veterans Affairs Medical Center in New York examined postpolypectomy bleeding in patients undergoing colonoscopy on uninterrupted clopidogrel and found that the ...

Aspirin may help to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) by causing premalignant polyps to bleed, thereby expediting colonoscopy and polypectomy before CRC development, according to the results ...

While colorectal cancer polyps often have no symptoms—especially in the early stages—there are some warning signs to be on ...

Researchers at the Dallas Veterans Administration Medical Center found that the use of clopidogrel during polypectomy has a 0.9 percent risk for bleeding in patients who already have a risk for ...

Rectal bleeding is a common patient complaint, usually presenting as blood on the toilet paper or in the toilet bowl. The differential diagnosis for this problem includes hemorrhoids, solitary rectal ...

Cold snare polypectomy (CSP) is superior to hot snare polypectomy (HSP) for colorectal polyps measuring 4-10 mm, a pragmatic randomized controlled trial confirms. In the Taiwan Cold Polypectomy Study, ...

SAN DIEGO — Prophylactic placement of hemoclips following the removal of large colon polyps did not decrease the risk for post-polypectomy bleeding, which questions the common practice of using ...