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Postgraduate Medical Journal 2004;80:492
© 2004 Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine

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Gastroenterology

Upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage

C H Lim , D M Chalmers

Department of Gastroenterology, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK

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Dr C H Lim
Department of Gastroenterology, Room 190A, Clarendon Wing, The General Infirmary at Leeds, Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3EX, UK; ch.lim@virgin.net

Submitted 14 October 2003
Accepted 15 October 2003

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A 75 year old man presented with a three day history of melaena without any abdominal pain. He had one episode of haematemesis (about 100 ml blood) in the emergency room. He had no previous history of peptic ulcer disease but had significant heart disease with coronary arterial by pass graft in 1992, poor left ventricular function, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, and type 2 diabetes. His regular medications included aspirin, warfarin, bisoprolol, bumetamide, amiodarone, lisinopril, and metformin. He was tachycardic with a pulse of 110 beats/min and blood pressure of 110/66 mm Hg. No abdominal tenderness was noted on examination and rectal examination revealed black tarry stool.

Laboratory tests showed a haemoglobin of 93 g/l (135–180) and international normalised ratio of 3.0. He was initially treated with 5 mg of vitamin K intravenously, fresh frozen plasma, and blood transfusion. An urgent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed excess altered and clotted blood . . . [Full text of this article]


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