Title
Massive lower digestive bleeding
Other title
Hemorragia digestiva baja masiva
Date Issued
01 January 1995
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Abstract
Lower digestive bleeding is the bleeding distal to the ligament of Treitz and ranges from occult loss to massive hemorrhage. Acute and massive form represents about 20% of all gastrointestinal acute bleeding. In children and young patients the most frequent causes are juvenile, polyps Meckel diverticula, and intussusception; in adult ages are the diverticular disease of colon, angiodysplasia and neoplasia; we must include also the intestinal TBC, typhoid fever, and intestinal amebiasis. The first aim in the management of this acute syndrome is the treatment of the hypovolemic shock; when the patient is well resuscitated, the diagnosis of the cause of hemorrhage will start using the clinical history and physical examination, proctosigmoidoscopy, emergency colonoscopy and/or angiography, or scintigraphy with 99mTc-labeled red blood cells. Definitive therapy include endoscopic an angiographic methods, or the emergency surgery. Mortality is 11% to 21%.
Volume
15 Suppl 1
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Cuidado crítico y de emergencia Gastroenterología, Hepatología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0029441217
PubMed ID
Source
Revista de gastroenterología del Perú : órgano oficial de la Sociedad de Gastroenterología del Perú
ISSN of the container
10225129
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