A Practical Alternative for Salvage Therapy in Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Ankaferd Blood Stopper

Abstract

Upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding is a common medical condition routinely encountered in clinical practice. Endoscopic procedures still constitute the basis of the treatment for hemostasis and the prevention of rebleeding. A variety of endoscopic treatment modalities including hemostatic clipping, argon plasma coagulation, sclerotherapy, heater probe and hemosprays are used alone or in combination. However, these conventional endoscopic therapies are often challenging, so new topical hemostatic agents have been introduced to allow for easier and more effective hemostasis in recent years. In this study, we shared our experience with Ankaferd blood stopper, which is becoming an effective alternative hemostatic medicine for gastrointestinal bleedings, in 64 patients who applied to our clinic with upper or lower gastrointestinal bleeding between January 2019 and April 2020. © 2021 Ondokuz Mayis Universitesi. All rights reserved.