Yuji Nishimoto, Yugo Yamashita, Takeshi Morimoto, Ryuki Chatani, Kazuhisa Kaneda, Nobutaka Ikeda, Yohei Kobayashi, Satoshi Ikeda, Kitae Kim, Moriaki Inoko, Toru Takase, Yukihito Sato, Tetsuya Watanabe, Takahisa Yamada, Masatake Fukunami, Takeshi Kimura
BACKGROUND: Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have become widely used for cancer-associated venous thromboembolism (VTE). However, DOAC-associated bleeding complications remain challenging, especially in patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancer. This study aimed to compare the bleeding outcomes between patients with upper or lower GI cancers and those without GI cancer. METHODS: Using the COMMAND VTE Registry-2 database, which is a multicenter registry enrolling 5197 consecutive acute symptomatic VTE patients among 31 centers in Japan between January 2015 and August 2020, we identified 1149 active cancer patients with DOACs (upper GI cancer: N = 88; lower GI cancer: N = 114; non-GI cancer: N = 947)...
April 24, 2024: European Journal of Internal Medicine