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An elderly man presenting with an acute upper gastrointestinal bleed: a case report
An 80 year old man presented to the Accident and Emergency Department complaining of “black stools”, increasing shortness of breath, chest tightness and epigastric pain. An upper gastro-intestinal bleed was diagnosed and the patient was managed conservatively with aggressive resuscitation and close...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769390/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918440 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7951 |
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description | An 80 year old man presented to the Accident and Emergency Department complaining of “black stools”, increasing shortness of breath, chest tightness and epigastric pain. An upper gastro-intestinal bleed was diagnosed and the patient was managed conservatively with aggressive resuscitation and close monitoring. An oesophogastroduodenoscopy found no cause for the bleeding which ceased and the patient was discharged with a general practitioner follow-up. |
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spelling | pubmed-27693902009-11-16 An elderly man presenting with an acute upper gastrointestinal bleed: a case report Agha, Riaz A Cases J Case report An 80 year old man presented to the Accident and Emergency Department complaining of “black stools”, increasing shortness of breath, chest tightness and epigastric pain. An upper gastro-intestinal bleed was diagnosed and the patient was managed conservatively with aggressive resuscitation and close monitoring. An oesophogastroduodenoscopy found no cause for the bleeding which ceased and the patient was discharged with a general practitioner follow-up. Cases Network Ltd 2009-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2769390/ /pubmed/19918440 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7951 Text en © 2009 Agha; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case report Agha, Riaz A An elderly man presenting with an acute upper gastrointestinal bleed: a case report |
title | An elderly man presenting with an acute upper gastrointestinal bleed: a case report |
title_full | An elderly man presenting with an acute upper gastrointestinal bleed: a case report |
title_fullStr | An elderly man presenting with an acute upper gastrointestinal bleed: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | An elderly man presenting with an acute upper gastrointestinal bleed: a case report |
title_short | An elderly man presenting with an acute upper gastrointestinal bleed: a case report |
title_sort | elderly man presenting with an acute upper gastrointestinal bleed: a case report |
topic | Case report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769390/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918440 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7951 |
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