Rare Cause of Severe Gastro-intestinal Haemorrhage

Traction esophageal diverticulum: a rare cause of gastro-intestinal bleeding

Esophageal diverticula are uncommon lesions that are usually classified according to their location (cervical, thoracic, or epiphrenic), or underlying pathogenesis (pulsion or traction), and their morphology (true or false).The majority of esophageal diverticula are acquired lesions that occur predominantly in elderly adults. Pulsion, or false, diverticula are the most commonly encountered type...

Haemobilia - A Rare Cause of Upper Gastro-Intestinal Bleeding.

Haemobilia is a rare cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding that consists of haemorrhage within the biliary tree. Most cases of haemobilia are due to iatrogenic cause, laparoscopic or open cholecystectomy, abdominal trauma, gallstones, hepatic tumours, vascular aneurism. We present the case of a male patient admitted in the surgery department for epigastric and right hypochondria pain, nausea...

Medical aspects of gastro-intestinal haemorrhage.

Most published figures show a mortality under conservative treatment of between 5 and 10% (note reduction corresponding to the introduction of blood transfusion). Though the mortality of haemorrhage from chronic gastric ulcer is considerably higher than at other sites the most important correlation is with age. Above 50 years the death rate increases sharply, and the third factor that significa...

Surgical aspects of gastro-intestinal haemorrhage.

Surgical management of idiopathic upper gastro-intestinal haemorrhage.

Of 776 patients admitted as emergency with acute upper gastro-intestinal haemorrhage, 260 were operated for uncontrollable bleeding. At surgery the cause of bleeding could not be determined in 42 (15%) cases. Vagotomy and drainage was done in 30 and gastric resection in 1 2 cases. Two patients died after gastrectomy (2/12). Follow up of 38 cases for 5 years showed good results. Two cases were l...