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**[[Internal hemorrhoid]] | **[[Internal hemorrhoid]] | ||
**[[External hemorrhoid]] | **[[External hemorrhoid]] | ||
*[[Aortoenteric | *[[Aortoenteric fistula]] | ||
**Nearly 100% mortality if untreated | |||
**Consider in patients with gastrointestinal bleeding and known abdominal aortic aneurysms or aortic grafts | |||
*[[Rectal foreign body]] | *[[Rectal foreign body]] | ||
*Rectal ulcer ([[HIV]], [[Syphilis]], [[STI]]) | *Rectal ulcer ([[HIV]], [[Syphilis]], [[STI]]) | ||
*[[Anal fissure]] | *[[Anal fissure]] | ||
Revision as of 18:34, 27 August 2019
Lower gastrointestinal bleeding
- Upper GI Bleeding
- Diverticular disease
- Vascular ectasia / angiodysplasia
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Infectious colitis
- Mesenteric Ischemia / ischemic colitis
- Meckel's diverticulum
- Colorectal cancer / polyps
- Hemorrhoids
- Aortoenteric fistula
- Nearly 100% mortality if untreated
- Consider in patients with gastrointestinal bleeding and known abdominal aortic aneurysms or aortic grafts
- Rectal foreign body
- Rectal ulcer (HIV, Syphilis, STI)
- Anal fissure
