Prognostic Factors of Outcome in Patient With Malignant Gastrointestinal Bleeding Treated With a Novel Hemostatic Power

Tumor-related gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is increasing due to the advancement of treatment in oncology. However, conventional endoscopic hemostatic methods are not reliable to control bleeding. Surgery, embolization, and radiotherapy can served as the salvage hemostasis; though, a bridging endoscopic therapy is required during resuscitation and stabilization of the patients. Hemospray is a recent novel endoscopic hemostatis powder which has a trend to be an effective instrument for controlling the active upper GI tumor bleeding from a match-pair, case-control study by the author's recent publication. Consequently, the authors hypothesized that there are some prognostic factors related to the outcome of Hemospray treatment in tumor bleeding.