Gastrointestinal Bleeding

About this book

Nineteen chapters by surgeons, gastroenterologists and radiologists, arranged in three parts: upper GI bleeding, lower GI bleeding, and bleeding from an unknown source. Chapters cover stabilisation and urgent workup, variceal and peptic ulcer bleeding, Dieulafoy's lesions, Mallory-Weiss tears, haemobilia and pancreatic bleeding, haemorrhoids, diverticular bleeding, arteriovenous malformations and bleeding tumours. The final part deals with the guaiac-positive patient, capsule and device-assisted enteroscopy, provocative angiography and the unstable patient. Written so a specific cause can be reviewed quickly before managing a patient.