A 52 year old male with a past medical history of idiopathic non-cirrhotic portal hypertension since childhood, was transferred to our hospital for management of hematemesis and melena. His past ...

However, the particularity of this case was that the patient did not have visible duodenal varices on upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. Furthermore, the source of bleeding could not be revealed at the ...

GASTRIC varices are being seen increasingly often in the patient presenting acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage. This increased frequency is associated with a greater number of cirrhotic patients found ...

Gastrointestinal bleeding is common among people with cirrhosis due to a complication called portal hypertension. This is elevated blood pressure in the veins that lead to your liver. Cirrhosis is ...

Black, tarry stool (melena) often signals bleeding in the upper digestive tract-not just food. Early recognition can prevent serious complications.

MASSIVE hemorrhage from the gastrointestinal tract, particularly hematemesis, is one of the dramatic events in medicine that deeply impress both patient and physician. The question that presents ...

Varices are abnormally dilatated and tortuous vessels, most commonly of the venous system, but they can also occur in the arterial and lymphatic vessels. They most frequently occur in the oesophagus ...

Gray-scale transabdominal sonography revealed an enlarged liver with a nodular liver profile, coarse echo-pattern, and the presence in the right liver lobe of multiple tumors with mixed echogenicity ...