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Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding: identifying low risk patients
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- Celiac disease
- gastrointestinal bleeding
- IBD clinical
- gastrointestinal cancer
- Helicobacter pylori
- inflammatory bowel disease
- Crohn's disease
- infliximab
- 5-aminosalicylic acid
- clinical trials
- endoscopic procedures
We thank Chakrabaty and colleagues for their letter.1 As they mention, the full Rockall score was designed (and has been validated) for use in identifying patients at risk of death from acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (AUGIB),2 ,3 and we believe this is the best use of the score. It has also recently been shown to be comparable with the Glasgow Blatchford Score …
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