Related Subjects:
| Upper Gastrointestinal Bleed
| Oesophageal Variceal Bleeding
| Dieulafoy Lesion
| Mallory-Weiss Tear
| Gastric Cancer
| Peptic Ulcer Disease
| Oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (OGD/EGD)
| Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia
|Hypovolaemic or Haemorrhagic Shock
Red flags are Dysphagia, Unplanned weight loss, Anorexia, Haematemesis and/or Melaena, Older patient, Lack of response to therapy, Chronic symptoms, On Chronic therapy
Dysphagia
Gastrointestinal Causes
Neurological Causes
Odynophagia - pain swallowing
Dyspepsia
Weight loss
Altered Bowel habit
Diarrhoea defined as stool weight > 200g/24 hrs
Steatorrhoea
Constipation
Tenesmus
Jaundice
Haematemesis
Melaena
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