Massive Rectal Hemorrhage From a Stercoral Ulcer

Massive lower gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding from stercoral ulcers is exceedingly rare. We report a case of a middle-aged man who presented with progressively deteriorating neurologic function with constipation and subsequent massive GI bleeding per rectum. While an uncommon cause of GI bleeding, su...

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Autores principales: Hassranah, Samara, Maharajh, Sandeep, Solomon, Sanjeev, Naraynsingh, Vijay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Gastroenterology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9382688/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35989792
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26963
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author Hassranah, Samara
Maharajh, Sandeep
Solomon, Sanjeev
Naraynsingh, Vijay
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description Massive lower gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding from stercoral ulcers is exceedingly rare. We report a case of a middle-aged man who presented with progressively deteriorating neurologic function with constipation and subsequent massive GI bleeding per rectum. While an uncommon cause of GI bleeding, such patients require rapid resuscitation and timely diagnosis of these ulcers since the usual management of such cases will be futile and harmful due to potentially inappropriate surgical bowel resection.
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spelling pubmed-93826882022-08-19 Massive Rectal Hemorrhage From a Stercoral Ulcer Hassranah, Samara Maharajh, Sandeep Solomon, Sanjeev Naraynsingh, Vijay Cureus Gastroenterology Massive lower gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding from stercoral ulcers is exceedingly rare. We report a case of a middle-aged man who presented with progressively deteriorating neurologic function with constipation and subsequent massive GI bleeding per rectum. While an uncommon cause of GI bleeding, such patients require rapid resuscitation and timely diagnosis of these ulcers since the usual management of such cases will be futile and harmful due to potentially inappropriate surgical bowel resection. Cureus 2022-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9382688/ /pubmed/35989792 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26963 Text en Copyright © 2022, Hassranah et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Massive Rectal Hemorrhage From a Stercoral Ulcer
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title_short Massive Rectal Hemorrhage From a Stercoral Ulcer
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topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9382688/
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