Angiography gi bleed
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The Doctor at the emergency room took no test, just said it is probably a bleed from a major artery or vein from a diverticulae and put me on 3 days of antibiotics. How does he know without any test? I'm really scared. I'm 55 years old. I am going to try to get into my GI doctor, but it's so hard to get in fast. All this pain and blood is scaring me big time.
I was hospitalized for a GI bleed from a gastric ulcer which caused acute blood anemia about 4 weeks ago. After I was discharged I started to feel better and get my energy back after 2 weeks. (I received 2 units of blood in the hospital). But, in the past week I have increasing started to get fatigued and only able to do limited min. activities. I also get easily short of breath when I exert too much.
Rule out hypertension as the cause for nasal bleed and hypertension. If these are excluded check anemia, stress and temporal arteritis. A brain tumor needs to be checked for if any associated nausea, dizziness, weakness of part, slurring of speech etc is present. Cerebral aneurysm, head injuries are other infrequent causes of headache.
You should consult a neurologist who would investigate these with blood tests, MRI and cerebral angiography if required and treat the cause as required.
I have had 5 different conflicting reports about what was to happen regarding Coumadin, ranging from total d/c, to hold for 1 week, to hold for 1 day, to resume. TPA was withheld after this stroke, because of GI bleed. Why would it have been OK to give TPA last year after an upper GI bleed when many units of blood were needed, but it was NOT OK for TPA this stroke following colitis with trace blood? Why would Coumadin have been held at all after the colonoscopy?
I just returned from the specialist where I had a full exam with a fluorescein angiography. The specialist said she can see the spot but there are no lesions and the bleed is inactive, so her working diagnosis right now is white dot syndrome with retinal hemorrhage and nevus of choroid of the left eye. She wants me to return in a week. I am really confused about what white dot syndrome is? Is there any treatment? Will the vision in my left eye ever return to normal?
Medical background for GI problems. November 1994 Upper GI Bleed from me chewing Aspergum, tested me for HIV and I was positive. Year 2000 Upper GI Bleed, 8 blood transfusions duodenum ulcer. Feb 2010 Upper GI Bleed. I've had GERD a long time, taken Proton Pump Inhibitors for years and I have it under control.
It’s more dull and annoying. A little background. Last month I had a kidney stone and a near fatal upper GI bleed. I passed the kidney stone about 2 weeks ago. I recently, in addition to the pelvic pain started feeling fullness in my bladder. In the last month I’ve had 2 X-Rays and 3 CT scans- one with contrast. Aside from the kidney stone everything was normal including the pelvic area(no mass etc).
My Grandmother has been detected with a blockage in heart, and its not getting well by the use of medicines.
Her Doctor is suggesting Angiography now.
Her age is 81 by now. I wanted to take other Doctors opinion about this case.
I went for an angiography which reported a 100 percent occluded lcx from the mid section with other arteries and the heart being normal.The ejection fraction after a test was found 65%. I am on beta blocker ever since with clopodrigel and a statin, Lipitor 10mg and my lipid profile in repeated tests is well within the normal limits.I can walk and climb stairs,however, if I climb stairs swiftly I do get out of breath as I am also on a heavier side.
I sounds like I was probably worse than your husband considering I had a major GI bleed in addition to the ascites, BUT I am doing FANTASTIC now. This was Jan. 2008 when I was diagnosed and was prepared for the transplant, etc., but my numbers just keep getting better. So, I am a really good example of how one can turn things around...
the dementia he may be showing could be from metabolic encephalopathy , secondary to the gi bleed...The blood is metabolized in the intestines as a very high protein source, a bi-product of this increased serum Ammonia levels..It would be the toxic ammonia levels that are responsible for the dimentia. This would possibly stop after resection (as long as thats the only cause).
You're going to have to carefully weigh what you think would be his opinion were he to have a clear mind.
Also coronary artery spasm can cause real cardiac pain and sometimes occurs in arteries that look normal on angiography. But if there is a suspicion of that, they can try to provoke the spasm with drugs during the cath. Did you have that done? This kind of angina is called Prinzmetal's angina, usually occurs at rest, and often follows a diurnal pattern.
Troponin T and Troponin I are accurate and are only released by cardiac muscle. If elevated, then they usually suggest angiography because there is a very high possibility that MI has occurred. Troponin also remains elevated for up to 14 days. Should you go for Angiography? Given the results of the test, I think the question is really "is it worth the risk not to have angiography".
small amounts of white spots in stool can just be from a high fat meal, however if more than 50% of the stool is white or clay colored this can be due to a block in the bile duct and needs to be addressed.
But she was moving fine, until 2 weeks back she had Angina attack and we got her Angiography done yesterday which revealed that her one of the artery is blocked over 90% near the beginning. Docs recommend her to go for Stent implant.
Now seeing her past history of ASD,and low platelets count. Would you recommend to go for it or not? Any risks involved in that?
With associated dark coloured vomit, this is likely to be an upper GI bleed. The causes could be infections, parasitic infestations, GI inflammations, gastric/ GI ulcers, oesophageal varices, GI growths/ polyps, diverticulosis, fistulas, fissures, AV malformation, GI ischaemia and necrosis, initial symptom of necrotizing enterocolitis, colon cancer etc. If there are no other associated symptoms, all these reasons would have to be looked into, during an evaluation and ruled out.
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