To cite: Akbari K, Wood C, Ahmad N, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014203939 DESCRIPTION An 88-year-old female smoker presented with a 5-week history of constant epigastric pain. On examination, she was haemodynamically stable, tender in the epigastrium and had a palpable pulsation in the right upper quadrant. Her full blood count, liver f...

position of insoluble fibrillar proteins in various organs [1]. In humans, more than 23 different and unrelated proteins are known to form amyloid fibrils [2]. Amyloidosis is divided into primary (i. e. idiopathic) and secondary amyloidosis (i. e. associated with chronic inflammatory conditions, and infectious and neoplastic disorders) [1]. Primary amyloidosis is extremely rare in the gastroint...

logic agents such as intra-arterial vasodilators during the procedures to increase the probability of finding visible active bleeding? Is it really the ‘superior mesenteric artery’ instead of ‘inferior mesenteric artery’ in the embolization technique section of the article? Furthermore, a major limitation of this study is the small number of patients which leads to a high risk of type II error....