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An unusual cause of gastrointestinal bleed
Gastrointestinal (GI) bleed often brings the patient to the emergency medical service with great anxiety. Known common causes of GI bleed include ulcers, varices, Mallory-Weiss among others. All causes of GI bleed should be considered however unusual during the evaluation. Aortoenteric fistula (AEF)...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4134629/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25136194 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.138160 |
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author | Adarsh, C. K. Kiran, Ravi Mallikarjun, |
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description | Gastrointestinal (GI) bleed often brings the patient to the emergency medical service with great anxiety. Known common causes of GI bleed include ulcers, varices, Mallory-Weiss among others. All causes of GI bleed should be considered however unusual during the evaluation. Aortoenteric fistula (AEF) is one of the unusual causes of GI bleed, which has to be considered especially in patients with a history of abdominal surgery in general and aortic surgery in particular. |
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spelling | pubmed-41346292014-08-18 An unusual cause of gastrointestinal bleed Adarsh, C. K. Kiran, Ravi Mallikarjun, Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Gastrointestinal (GI) bleed often brings the patient to the emergency medical service with great anxiety. Known common causes of GI bleed include ulcers, varices, Mallory-Weiss among others. All causes of GI bleed should be considered however unusual during the evaluation. Aortoenteric fistula (AEF) is one of the unusual causes of GI bleed, which has to be considered especially in patients with a history of abdominal surgery in general and aortic surgery in particular. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4134629/ /pubmed/25136194 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.138160 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Adarsh, C. K. Kiran, Ravi Mallikarjun, An unusual cause of gastrointestinal bleed |
title | An unusual cause of gastrointestinal bleed |
title_full | An unusual cause of gastrointestinal bleed |
title_fullStr | An unusual cause of gastrointestinal bleed |
title_full_unstemmed | An unusual cause of gastrointestinal bleed |
title_short | An unusual cause of gastrointestinal bleed |
title_sort | unusual cause of gastrointestinal bleed |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4134629/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25136194 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.138160 |
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