direct oral anticoagulants

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Endoscopic Biopsy in Patients Exposed to Direct Oral Anticoagulants Is Claimed To Be Safe

Endoscopic Biopsy in Patients Exposed to Direct Oral Anticoagulants Is Claimed To Be Safe

Patients taking direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are often considered to be at increased risk for bleeding after therapeutic endoscopic procedures such as polypectomy and sphincterotomy. 

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Prophylactic Clipping to Prevent Postpolypectomy Bleeding After Oral Anticoagulants

Prophylactic Clipping to Prevent Postpolypectomy Bleeding After Oral Anticoagulants

Prophylactic clipping is generally considered effective for endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) defects of lesions ≥20 mm removed with electrocautery and proximal to the splenic flexure. 

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Stopping Direct Oral Anticoagulants on the Day of Colonoscopy Was Enough to Prevent Bleeding After Cold Snare Polypectomy

Stopping Direct Oral Anticoagulants on the Day of Colonoscopy Was Enough to Prevent Bleeding After Cold Snare Polypectomy

Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are often stopped a couple of days before colonoscopy and resumed one or more days after the procedure, depending on thromboembolism

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Want To Take Out Polyps in Anticoagulated Patients? New Data Indicate Apixaban Is the Drug To Be On

Want To Take Out Polyps in Anticoagulated Patients? New Data Indicate Apixaban Is the Drug To Be On

This retrospective cohort study evaluated postpolypectomy bleeding and thromboembolism risks with warfarin, apixaban, dabigatran, and rivaroxaban use in Hong Kong public hospitals between January 2012

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Poor Compliance With Antithrombotic Guidelines Associated With Bad Outcomes

Poor Compliance With Antithrombotic Guidelines Associated With Bad Outcomes

Rates of polypectomy in colonoscopy are high for all indications; therefore, clinicians usually stop antiplatelet and antithrombotic agents other than aspirin prior to colonoscopy and