Acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding is a major problem worldwide, being a rare and life threatening condition, with a mortality rate situated between 2 and 4%. Acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding is solvent for 1 - 2% of the entire hospital emergencies, 15% presenting as massive bleeding and up to 5% requiring surgery. Lower gastrointestinal bleeding can be classified depending on their loc...

Background: Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have been associated with depletion of serotonin in platelets, and risk of bleeding. Objective: The main objective is to report the cases of two young males with no medical problems other than their psychiatric disorders presenting with lower gastrointestinal bleeding after paroxetine use. Method: We report two cases of lower gastroint...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Gastrointestinal bleeding in children and adolescents accounts for up to 20 % of referrals to gastroenterologists. Detailed management guidelines exist for gastrointestinal bleeding in adults, but they do not encompass children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to assess gastrointestinal bleeding in pediatric patients and to determine an investigative manageme...

background lower gastrointestinal bleeding (lgib) in infants and children is a common problem in medical centers; however, its epidemiologic properties have not been studied well. objectives due to the fact that lgib has various causes in different geographical places, considering the importance of etiology in decision making for diagnostic techniques and treatment and since the lack of compreh...

lipomas are rare gastric tumors that comprise less than 1% of gastric tumors. these tumors are usually without clinical manifestations, but sometimes they may present with severe symptoms like bleeding,intussusception, or abdominal pain. in endoscopic assessment, they manifest with subm ucosal masses with intact epithelium. endosonography and ct scan can help in diagnosis. surgical resection of...

engraftment by donor lymphocytes in an immunologically compromised host can result in donor t-cell activation against host major histocompatibility complex antigens, with resultant gvhd. the acute form of gvhd (agvhd) is characterized by erythroderma, cholestatic hepatitis, and enteritis. the intestinal symptoms of agvhd include crampy abdominal pain and watery diarrhea, often with blood. the c...

A 38-year-old woman with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department with a 1-day history of diffuse abdominal pain. She reported normal bowel movements up to 1 day prior and was unable to pass anything rectally since. There was no report of fever, nausea, vomiting, hematemesis, or melena. Physical exam demonstrated diffuse abdominal tenderness and normal bowel sou...

A 50-year-old woman was admitted to our institution because of a pertrochanteric fracture in her right hip to place a femoral nail. Orthopedic surgeons prescribed metamizol 1 g t.i.d. plus paracetamol 1 g t.i.d., both intravenously, as analgesics. One week after surgery she started having hematochezia and her hemoglobin dropped from 12 to 7.7 g/dL. She underwent an urgent gastroscopy (normal)an...