Relationship between aspirin taking and gastroduodenal haemorrhage.

Abstract

EDITORIAL COMMENT The causal relationship between aspirin and gastroduodenal haemorrhage is critically examined. Occult bleeding showed that as a group patients who had had a severe gastrointestinal bleed were not strikingly different from a group of people with normal digestive tracts. It seems likely that overt bleeding may be due to an idosyncratic response developing only in particular circumstances.