Upper gastrointestinal bleeding in a young female with AIDS: a case report

Abstract

Upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage (UGIH) is a surprisingly common condition in patients with AIDS (PWAs), affecting at least 6%. With the growing number of PWAs and their increasing life span, UGIH will certainly gain importance as a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to health-care professionals, especially in central and eastern Europe because of the AIDS epidemics rapidly developing in that region. With the scarcity of reported cases, lack of management guidelines of UGIH in PWAs, and limited therapeutic possibilities in developing countries, important therapeutic problems should be anticipated. We present a case of UGIH in a female PWA due to ketoprofen overuse, successfully managed with conservative treatment.