None required intervention. One patient with gastritis by endoscopy died from disseminated (non-upper GI) malignant disease 2 months after endoscopy. Follow up on the remaining patients was ...

foreign body removal from upper GI tract, dilations, percutaneous liver biopsies, pH probe, hydrogen breath testing and anorectal motility testing. Multidisciplinary patient-centered care is the focus ...

Twenty-eight (15%) patients were excluded because of insufficient clinical data. Patients presenting with upper GI bleeding following anticoagulation for a recent myocardial event were also excluded.