peptic ulcer disease and its complications have long been studied but the coexistence of two major complications in a kissing ulcer is uncommon. we present our experience with this entity and review the related literature. a 27 year old man was suffering from concomitant major complication of duodenal kissing ulcer, huge anterior perforation and uncontrolled posterior bleeding, presenting as he...

A case of amyloid light chain (AL) amyloidosis is presented here with uncontrolled bleeding after a nonsurgical dental procedure, most likely multifactorial in nature, and consequently treated with a multidisciplinary approach.

controlling blood pressure adequately with antihypertensive drugs would have hypertension as a cause of subconjunctival hemorrhage. Perhaps the percentages of subconjunctival bleeding from hypertension would change if the appropriate definition of hypertension were applied. I read with interest the article by Mimura et al. [1] . The authors defined hypertension as treatment with antihypertensiv...

Recombinant activated factor VII (rFVIIa, NovoSeven) has been successfully used to treat bleeding episodes in patients with antibodies against coagulation factors VIII and IX. In recent years, rFVIIa has also been employed for the management of uncontrolled bleeding in a number of congenital and acquired haemostatic abnormalities. Based on a literature search, this review examines the current k...

BACKGROUND Our previous and other studies have shown that hypotensive or hypothermic resuscitation have beneficial effects on uncontrolled hemorrhagic shock. Whether hypothermia can increase the beneficial effect of hypotensive resuscitation on hemorrhagic shock is not known. METHODS Two-hundred and twenty Sprague-Dawley rats were used to make uncontrolled hemorrhagic shock. Before bleeding w...

One of the specific manifestations hemophilia A is spontaneous abdominal hematoma mimicking clinical picture acute disease. The appearance auto-antibodies to FVIII leads a loss response replacement hemostatic therapy and requires an individualized approach as well highly sensitive laboratory monitoring reduce risk uncontrolled bleeding. paper presents case multi-stage surgical treatment this co...

Several clinical settings are associated with specific coagulopathies that predispose to uncontrolled bleeding. With the growing concern about the need for optimizing transfusion practices and improving treatment of the bleeding patient, a group of 9 Portuguese specialists (Share Network Group) was created to discuss and develop algorithms for the clinical evaluation and control of coagulopathi...