Abstract:Background: Acute gastrointestinal (GI) haemorrhage is a common clinical problem with diverse manifestations. Such bleeding may range from trivial to massive and can originate from virtually any region of the GI tract, including the pancreas, liver, and biliary tree. Several risk scoring systems have also been proposed to classify patients into high and low risk groups for complications, like re-bleeding or mortality, based on multivariate analyses. Kollef and colleagues identified the BLEED criteria: (a) ongo… Show more
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