Causes and Management of Lower Gastro-Intestinal Bleeding
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Published:2021-10-18
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Page:629-635
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ISSN:2456-9119
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Container-title:Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International
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Short-container-title:JPRI
Author:
Hussein Mohammed Salah,Alshagawi Ziyad Abdullah,Fateel Noor Abdulhakim M. Al,Alashhab Hossam Mohammed,Mosleh Alenzi Meshari,Almutawa Osamah Abdulmonem,Alshahrani Abdulrahman Oun,Alahmadi Mohammed Faisal G.,Alzahrani Saleh Kamal,Khorami Wed Mohammed,Al-Wagdani Naif Mohammed,Bokhari Abdalrhman Nbil,Aljadrawi Wafa Faisal W.
Abstract
Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding from the colon is a communal reason for hospitalization and is being more frequent in older patients. Gastrointestinal bleeding is known as any bleeding that takes place in the GIT from mouth to anus. Lower GI bleeding is defined as bleeding distal to the ligament of Treitz. Lower GI bleed is typically presented as hematochezia which is the passing of bright red blood clots or burgundy stools through the rectum. The causes of lower GI bleeding are changing over the past several decades from diverticulosis (which is the protrusion of the colon wall at the site of penetrating vessels), infectious colitis, ischemic colitis, angiodysplasia, inflammatory bowel disease, colon cancer, hemorrhoids, anal fissures, rectal varices, dieulafoy lesion, radiation-induced damage following cancer treatment to post-surgical. Management of lower GI bleeding is done through assessing the severity of symptoms and the condition of the overall case.
Publisher
Sciencedomain International
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