Lower gastrointestinal bleeding (differential)
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A lower gastrointestinal bleed usually refers to bleeding distal to the ligament of Treitz.
Clinical presentation
Presents with melaena, haematochezia or, if subclinical slow bleeding, chronic anaemia.
Causes
- diverticular disease
- enterocolitis
- vascular malformation
- vascular ectasia
- angiodysplasia
- arteriovenous malformation (AVM)
- polyp
- tumour
- vasculitides
- portal hypertensive enteropathy or colopathy
- Meckel diverticulum
- ulcer
- aorto-enteric fistula
- anal fissure
- haemorrhoids
- perianal fistula(s)
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