Incidence and risk factors of rebleeding in Crohn’s disease patients with acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding
Gabin Moon, Kyeong Ok Kim, Sung Noh Hong, Seong Joon Koh, Sung Hoon Jung, Chang Hwan Choi, Eun Mi Song, Hong Sub Lee, Yoo Jin Lee, Ki Bae Bang · 2026
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Description
Serious bleeding from the lower gut is a rare but dangerous complication of Crohn's disease. Gabin Moon and co-authors reviewed 137 such patients treated at nine Korean university hospitals between 2000 and 2020, asking how often bleeding returns and what predicts it. Most cases were managed conservatively; only small shares needed endoscopic treatment, embolization, or surgery.
Rebleeding struck 44 patients, about 32 percent, at a median of thirteen months. One factor stood out in both simple and adjusted analyses: needing a blood transfusion during the first bleed. That requirement roughly tripled to quadrupled the hazard of bleeding again. The authors say transfusion need flags a patient for closer watching and possibly earlier escalation of Crohn's therapy after a first bleed.
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| CREATOR | Gabin Moon, Kyeong Ok Kim, Sung Noh Hong, Seong Joon Koh, Sung Hoon Jung, Chang Hwan Choi, Eun Mi Song, Hong Sub Lee, Yoo Jin Lee, Ki Bae Bang |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |