Clinical Practice Recurrent Severe Obscure Gastro Intestinal- Bleeding in a 20 Year Old Man

Clinical practice recurrent severe obscure gastro intestinal-bleeding in a 20 year old man.

Morbus Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome also known as Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and Meckel's diverticulum is a rare combination disorder. Our case presented with the recurrent obscure gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding for several years. He came with a massive active lower gastrointestinal bleeding. Ultimatively, he underwent an exploratory laparotomy along with intraoperative colonosco...

Recurrent Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Intestinal Lymphangiohemangioma

Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB) is thought to be a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for the clinicians and radiologists. A 46-year-old woman complaining of intermittent melena for 3 months was admitted. After extensive investigations, a vascular lesion located in the ileum, diagnosed as intestinal lymphangiohemangioma pathologically, was found by CT angiography (CTA) and selective ...

Recurrent obscure gastrointestinal bleeding.

Routine diagnostic studies can locate the source of gastrointestinal bleeding in the vast majority of persons. In approximately 5 percent of persons, however, the source remains obscure despite sophisticated studies. Our inability to localize the source of bleeding in these individuals illustrates the limits of available diagnostic technology. In an elderly patient who requires repeated diagnos...

Episodes of Massive Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Due to Dieulafoy’s Lesion in A 75-Year-Old Man: A Case Report

  Aneurysms of gastric vessels (Dieulafoy`s disease, caliber-persistent artery) are thought to be of malformative rather than degenerative origin. They are usually single, located in the submucosa, usually on the lesser curvature, and characterized by a large tortuous vessel surmounted by a small defect...

A 77-year-old man with nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding.