An endoscopic technique for the measurement of gastric mucosal bleeding time has been developed to study gastric haemostasis in patients with acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage. The relation of gastric mucosal bleeding time to skin bleeding time and nonsterodial anti-inflammatory drug usage was examined in 61 control patients and in 47 patients presenting with bleeding peptic ulcers or er...

Classification of Post-Partum Haemorrhage According to Cause In considering the management of post-partum haemorrhage, it is much more valuable to classify ex­ cessive blood loss according to its cause. Hypotonic post-partum haemorrhage occurs because the uterus fails to undergo adequate contraction and retraction following the delivery of the baby. This type of post-partum haemorrhage can be t...

Leptospirosis is a zoonotic infection more common in south India. Most of the cases are asymptomatic but rarely patient can develop complications like renal failure, acute liver pancreatitis, ARDS and bleeding diathesis. Haemorrhage has been reported multiple sites, which most pulmonary haemorrhage. Here we report case 53-year-old male presenting with febrile illness seizures. CT brain revealed...

Procedures in the field of head and neck surgery can be complicated by haemorrhage post-operative bleeding. Whilst it is commonplace to screen for coagulopathies pre-operative period, rare congenital bleeding disorders difficult detect have significant consequences. We report a case following routine sinus due an undiagnosed haemophilia A 65-year-old male.

Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are predisposed to upper gastrointestinal (GI) haemorrhage with bleeding gastro-oesophageal varices and peptic ulcers being the common aetiologies. On rare occasions, HCC with direct invasion into the upper GI tract can lead to haemorrhage. Recognizing the possibility of invasive HCC causing upper GI haemorrhage is of paramount importance as acute ma...

Haemorrhage is the most serious and common side-effect of warfarin therapy. Bleeding had commonly been observed in the gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts as well as in the skin and subcutaneous tissue. Central nervous system bleeding has also been reported and has usually been associated with marked prolongation of the prothrombin time. Spinal cord haemorrhage has been infrequently obser...

Abstract Background Falls from standing are common in the elderly and associated with a significant risk of bleeding. We have compared proportional incidence bleeding complications patients on either direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC) or vitamin K antagonists (VKA). Methods Our retrospective cohort study (≥65 years) DOAC VKA anticoagulation who presented at site – Swiss university emergency depa...