NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Colorectal cold-snare polypectomy is safe to perform if direct-acting oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are withheld on only the day of the procedure, a study from Japan suggests.
“No delayed bleeding in colonoscopy with cold snare polypectomy occurred in patients withholding DOACs on the day of cold snare polypectomy,” researchers write in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. “The simplified strategy that withholding of DOACs in cold snare polypectomy for colorectal polyps (10 mm or less) . . . only on the day of the procedure can be recommended.”