Bleeding – From Surgical Hemostasis to Emergency Management
Massive Rectal Bleeding (8 of 11)
Colonoscopy is a non-invasive procedure that provides much information about the mas and nature of involvement and facilitates biopsy collection. Colonoscopic findings of nodular, noduloulcerative...
Massive Rectal Bleeding (7 of 11)
Tuberculosis may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract, but it most commonly involves the terminal ileum and ileocaecal region, as does Crohn’s disease.
Massive Rectal Bleeding (6 of 11)
The median duration of symptoms is usually less than one year. Pain predominantly in the lower abdomen is the commonest symptom of presentation. In one-third of patients lower gastrointestinal bleeding...
Massive Rectal Bleeding (5 of 11)
The cecum area showing ulceration of the ileocecal valve Colonic TB may present as an inflammatory stricture, hypertrophic lesions resembling polyps or tumors, segmental ulcers and colitis or rarely,...
Massive Rectal Bleeding (4 of 11)
The apparent affinity of the tubercle bacillus for lymphoid tissue and areas of physiologic stasis facilitating prolonged contact between the bacilli and the mucosa may be the reasons for the ileum...
Massive Rectal Bleeding (3 of 11)
Large ulcer with an elevated margin Intestinal tuberculosis (TB) is rarely seen in western countries, affecting mainly immigrants and immunocompromised patients. However, the incidence of abdominal...
Massive Rectal Bleeding (2 of 11)
The colon was seen to be filled with dark blood. The main symptom of lower GI bleeding is blood exiting the anus, either alone (bright red blood per rectum) or as red-stained stool (hematochezia)....
Massive Rectal Bleeding (1 of 11)
This 54-year-old male fisherman, was seen as an emergency because of massive rectal bleeding, his hemoglobin was 6.3 GR./dl, serology for HIV was negative, Rectal examination revealed dark, red blood...
Crohn's Disease - Endoscopy (24 of 28)
Crohn’s is a serious inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract that causes diarrhea, abdominal cramps, fever and rectal bleeding. The cause of Crohn’s disease is unknown.
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (5 of 110)
Close up of deep and large ulcer in the rectum Severe ulcerative colitis, the least common form of the disease, occurs in 15% of all patients with ulcerative colitis. This form of the disease may...
Rectal Bleeding (1 of 2)
A 65 year-old male presented with chronic diarrhea Rectal bleeding associated with the passage of mucus The image and the video clip displays a pancolitis. The mucosa is friable, erythematous, and...
Ulcerative Colitis
There are several serpingenous ulcers with pseudo polyps, friability, exudate, and bleeding, with increasingly larger areas of ulcerations.
Endoscopy Of Ulcerative Colitis (2 of 3)
More images of ulcerative colitis, with increasingly larger areas of ulcerations.