Upper GI bleed
A rare cause of upper GI bleed
... Upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) refers to blood loss of recent onset originating from a site proximal to the ligament of Treitz. It is a common clinical problem seen in the practice of Gastroenterology and ...
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Guitarist Pick for Melena: A Unique Case of an Upper GI Bleed
... an upper GI bleed in which the cause was likely due to the impaction of a guitar pick into the duodenal bulb in the setting of continuous flow-LVAD on anticoagulation with elevated INR and discuss ...
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Comparison of prediction of outcomes in upper GI bleed using non-endoscopic scoring systems
... Background: Several scoring systems have been designed for risk stratification and prediction of outcomes in upper GI bleed. Endoscopy plays a major role in the diagnostic and therapeutic management ...
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Post traumatic intra thoracic spleen presenting with upper GI bleed! – a case report
... Isolated splenic vein thrombosis with left sided portal hypertension is a rare cause of upper gastrointestinal bleed [1]. Diseases of the pancreas have been identified as the most common cause of isolated ...
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Hepatic artery aneurysm rupture presenting as an upper GI bleed: A case report
... Hepatic artery aneurysms are a rare entity and even less common cause of gastrointestinal bleeding. Although no hepatic arteryduodenal fistula had been described prior to 2000 in the literature, this marks the third ...
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Clinical profile of patients presenting with gastrointestinal bleeding in a tertiary care hospital
... had upper GI bleed, 28 (19%) had lower GI bleed, and 11 (7%) had obscure ...behind GI bleed forming the main aetiology in this study population, 26% had oesophageal ...
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Study of gastrointestinal manifestations in Dengue fever
... patients. GI manifestations noted were Nausea in 71%, Elevation of transaminases in 59%, vomiting in 54%, pain abdomen in 31%, Ascites in 24% hepatomegaly in 14%, diarrhoea in 13%, Acalculous cholecystitis in 13%, ...
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Study of Clinical and Endoscopic Profile of Patients with Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleed
... Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding is a common medical emergency with an estimated incidence of 50-150 cases per one lakh annually and it has been noted as a major cause of hospital admission and deaths ...
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Upper Gastrointestinal Bleed - Causes, Endoscopic profile and usefulness of Rockall Score.
... Endoscopy is the most accurate method available for identifying the source of bleeding and providing therapy in UGIB. A large double or single channel therapeutic endoscope should be used in all suspected cases of ...
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A Study on Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopic findings in patient admitted with UGI bleed
... Endoscopy has beyond doubt reduced morbidity, hospital stay, risk of recurrent bleeding and need for surgery in patients with non – variceal upper GI bleed. Early endoscopy (within 24 hours) in an ...
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Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding In Cardiac Patients ,Clinical And Endoscopic Profile
... an upper GI bleed following cardiac ...esophagitis. GI bleeding events were associated with prolonged ICU and overall hospital ...stays. GI bleedingin this contemporary setting was also ...
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A review of duodenal metastases from squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix presenting as an upper gastrointestinal bleed
... massive upper gastrointestinal (GI) ...Her upper GI bleed was investigated with an emergency esophagogastroduodeno- ...and GI junction all appeared completely normal; however, it ...
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Spectrum of Upper GI Endoscopy in Pediatric Population at a Tertiary Care Centre in Pakistan
... ogy in 1960’s in developed countries [4]. Later on, fiberoptic endoscopies for children were developed mainly in 1970’s and upper GI endoscopy became a standard of care in diagnosis of many gastrointestinal ...
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Comorbidities affect risk of nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding
... of upper gas- trointestinal bleeding (GIB) has not been reduced despite the decreasing incidence of peptic ulcers, strategies to eradicate Helicobacter pylori infection, and prophylaxis against ulceration from ...
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Massive gastrointestinal bleeding; never too old to be due to Meckel’s Diverticulum - A case report and literature review
... Although it is usually asymptomatic, it can present with abdominal pain due to intestinal obstruction or acute diverticulitis, or in the form of obscure GI bleeding [22]. The most common complications in adult ...
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CAUSE OF MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY IN CAUSTIC INJURIES OF ADULTS
... (n=7), GI Bleeding (n=5), early post-operative MODS (n=4), GI leakage (n=4), malnutrition (n=3), early post-operative bleeding (n=1) and massive internal bleeding ...early upper airway obstruction ...
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Patient level pooled analysis of adjudicated gastrointestinal outcomes in celecoxib clinical trials: meta analysis of 51,000 patients enrolled in 52 randomized trials
... suspected GI outcomes and guidance on the screening methods to be applied to potential events before ...suspected GI outcomes by using the clini- cal information supplied in supporting documentation, and ...
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Splenosis involving the gastric fundus, a rare cause of massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report and review of the literature
... another upper endoscopy that demonstrated a small pouch in the gastric fundus without any stigmata of recent hemorrhage, but concerning for either a diverticulum or ...quent upper gastrointestinal series ...
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<p>Practice Advisory on the Appropriate Use of NSAIDs in Primary Care</p>
... better GI tolerability for ...low GI risk patients, any nonselective NSAID plus proton pump inhibitor (PPI) or celecoxib alone is acceptable treatment when CV risk is low; for high CV risk patients, ...
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Validation of High Risk Clinical Scoring: As a Sensitive Method to Predict Endoscopic Severity and Adverse Outcome in patients with UGI Bleed
... surgery is likewise important. For example, a history of previous aortic surgery should increase the suspicion for aortoenteric fistula. A history of liver disease raise the possibility of bleeding associated with portal ...
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