Gastrointestinal Bleeding A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pryor, Aurora D. (Editor), Pappas, Theodore N. (Editor), Branch, Malcolm Stanley. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Interventional radiology.; Gastroenterology.; Surgery.; Abdomen > Surgery.; Endoscopic surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Minimally Invasive Surgery.; Interventional Radiology.; Abdominal Surgery.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1693-8

The diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal bleeding is multidisciplinary by nature involving surgeons, gastroenterologists and radiologists. Due to various pathologies, it involves upper gut, lower gut and occult bleeding. Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Manage...

Table of Contents:

• Stabilization of the Patient at Presentation
• Urgent workup for upper gi bleeding
• Management of bleeding esophageal varices
• Management of Dieulafoys
• Management of bleeding peptic ulcer disease
• Management of unusual upper sources of bleeding GAVE, aortoduodenal fistula, av malformation. Hemorrhagic gastritis
• Management of Mallory Weiss tear
• Management of bleeding small bowel tumors
• Management of bleeding from the bile duct
• Management of bleeding from the pancreas
• Urgent work up of Lower GI bleeding
• Management of bleeding hemorrhoids
• Management of bleeding colitis
• Management of av malformation of the colon
• Management of bleeding colon tumors
• GI Bleeding from an Unknown Source
• GI team: Occult GI Bleeding: Evaluation of the Guaiac positive patient
• GI team: Obscure GI Bleeding Capsule and Double Balloon Techniques
• Provocative Angiography
• The unstable patient with obscure GI bleeding. Surgical and non-Surgical Management
• Index.