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Lower Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
Benign Disease
- A 74-year-old woman with no significant medical history is admitted with lower gastrointestinal bleeding. The patient undergoes a normal esophagogastroduodenoscopy; colonoscopy reveals diverticulosis and blood throughout the colon with no site of active bleeding or adherent clot. Two days later, the patient develops recurrent hematochezia with transient hypotension that responds to transfusion. A technetium 99m–tagged red blood cell scan demonstrates active bleeding in the right colon. The best next step in management is:
Surgical Management of Crohn's Disease (2020)
- OPERATIVE INDICATIONS
- References
Colonic Diverticular Disease
- Introduction
Benign Disease
- A 67-year-old man with a history of uncontrolled hypertension, heavy cigarette smoking, and chronic renal insufficiency undergoes an open repair of a leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). On postoperative day 2, he has passage of bright red blood per rectum associated with increased abdominal pain and leukocytosis. On examination, he has tenderness in the left lower quadrant without peritoneal signs. His vital signs show a blood pressure of 90/50 mmHg and a heart rate of 110 beats per minute. You initiate intravenous (IV) fluid resuscitation and obtain computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen and pelvis, which revealed a thickened sigmoid colon with no pneumoperitoneum. You initiate bowel rest and IV antibiotics. The best next step is
About ASCRS Textbook of Colon and Rectal Surgery
- Table of Contents
Rectal Cancer: Local Excision
- Complications
Anastomotic Complications
- Anastomotic Bleeding
Preoperative Evaluation in Colorectal Patients
- Evaluation of the Routine Colorectal Patients
Radiation, Microscopic, and Ischemic Colitis
- References
Endoscopy
- References
Hemorrhoids
- References
Anastomotic Complications
- References
Crohn’s Disease: Surgical Management
- References
Management of Colon Cancer (2022)
- References
Colorectal Cancer: Management of Distant Metastases
- References
General Postoperative Complications
- References
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