Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Symptoms, Treatment and Prognosis

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Ahmed Kamel Abdel Aal, MD, PhD and Souheil Saddekni, MD (Editors)
Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL, USA

Series: Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine
BISAC: MED031000

Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is one of frequent emergencies that clinicians frequently manage in their clinical practices. This book contains several chapters dedicated to the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal bleeding. This book includes current updates on all areas of GI bleeding including upper GI, lower GI, and small bowel bleeding. It fully covers the different symptoms and signs of gastrointestinal bleeding that can occur in different conditions. The outline of the many dilemmas faced by clinicians in their approach to their patients like diagnostic predictors of clinical outcome, and risk stratification in lower GI bleeding and for upper GI bleeding.

There is a dedicated chapter for the diagnosis and management of Dieulafoy lesions (DLs) which are uncommon, yet they are often an under-recognized cause of life-threatening GI bleeding occurring in both the adult and pediatric population. This book also gives a comprehensive overview of the various imaging modalities used for the diagnosis of GI bleeding with emphasis on the role of MDCT in the care of patients with GI hemorrhage. The initial management of significant GI bleeding with focuses on early identification, hemodynamic stabilization, close monitoring in the proper setting, and timely workup and intervention is described.

A dedicated chapter discusses the wide range of endoscopic therapies that are now available to treat GI bleeding, with an emphasis on the new advances in endoscopic therapy. There is detailed discussion on the role of transcatheter arterial embolization, which remains an important available treatment modality in the armamentarium for management of non-variceal GI bleeding. A review of the primary prevention of variceal hemorrhage, management of acute variceal hemorrhage, and secondary prevention of variceal hemorrhage is presented. A comprehensive discussion on the surgical and endovascular management of variceal bleeding using transjugular intrahepatic porto-systemic shunt (TIPS) as well as surgical shunts is included in this book. This book will be of great value to many clinicians in different specialties including general practitioners, general internal medicine, gastrointestinal medicine, interventional radiologists and gastrointestinal surgeons. (Imprint: Nova Biomedical )

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapter 1. Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Diagnosis and Outcomes
Hyasinta Jaka, M.D., MMed and Phillipo Chalya, M.D., MMed (Department of General Sugery, Bugando Hospital, Mwanza, Tanzania)

Chapter 2. Dieulafoy Lesions As a Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Rani Kanthan, MBBS, MS, FRCS, FRCPC, M.Ed, Jenna-Lynn Senger, M.D. and Selliah Chandra-Kanthan, FRCS, FRCSC (Department of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon SK, Canada)

Chapter 3. Early Risk Assessment of Patients Presented with Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Mohammed Z. Mustafa, M.D. and Adrian J. Stanley, M.D. (Gastrointestinal Unit, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland)

Chapter 4. Diagnostic Imaging of Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Lauren Alexander, M.D. and Desiree E. Morgan, M.D. (Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, US)

Chapter 5. Management of Patients with Acute GI Bleeding: Advances in Endoscopic Therapy
Andrew Y. Wang, M.D. and Mary M. Flynn, M.D. (Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Virginia Health System, VA, US)

Chapter 6. Endovascular Management of Nonvariceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Ahmed Kamel Abdel Aal, M.D., MSc, Ph.D., Kirolos Yassa, M.D., Maysoon Farouk Hamed, M.D., MSc, Rafik Mohamed Ibrahim, M.D., MSc, Ph.D., Nathan Ertel, M.D., Samir Hadi, M.D., and Souheil Saddekni, M.D., FAHA, FSIR (Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, US)

Chapter 7. Endovascular Management of Nonvariceal Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Ahmed Kamel Abdel Aal, M.D., MSc, Ph.D., Kirolos Yassa, M.D., Maysoon Farouk Hamed, M.D., MSc, Rafik Mohamed Ibrahim, M.D., MSc, Ph.D., Nathan Ertel, M.D., Samir Hadi, M.D., and Souheil Saddekni, M.D., FAHA, FSIR (Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, US)

Chapter 8. Variceal Hemorrhage
Mohamed G. Shoreibah, M.D., Omar I. Massoud, M.D., Ph.D. and Ashwani K. Singal, M.D. (Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, US)

Chapter 9. Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt
Souheil Saddekni, M.D., FAHA, FSIR, Ahmed Kamel Abdel Aal, M.D., MSc, Ph.D., Kirolos Yassa, M.D., Rafik Mohamed Ibrahim, M.D., MSc, Ph.D., Michael B. Saddekni, M.D. and Maysoon Farouk Hamed, M.D., MSc (Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, US)

Chapter 10. Surgical Management of Gastroesophageal Varices
Jared A. White, M.D., Stephen H. Gray, M.D., MSPH, Devin E. Eckhoff, M.D. and Derek A. DuBay, M.D. (Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, US)

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