Non peptic ulcer associated gastric bleeding
Non peptic ulcer associated gastric bleeding
Updated: 02/17/2021
© Jun Wang, MD, PhD
Stress related mucosal disease
- AKA stress-related erosive syndrome, stress ulcer syndrome, and stress-induced gastritis
- Associated with critical illness or extreme physiologic stress
- GI blooding due to ulcer
Curling
ulcers: Proximal duodenum, associated with severe burns or trauma
Cushing
ulcers: Gastric, duodenal, and esophageal, associated with intracranial disease, likely perforate
- Most likely associated with local ischemia, due to either systemic hypotension, local vasoconstriction
- May be associated with overproduction of gastric acid due to vagal activation
- Presentations: GI bleeding, such as coffee ground vomitus, melena
- Sharply demarcated, multifocal, NO scarring
- Diagnosis: Clinical presentations, laboratory findings, endoscopic examination
- Management: Prophylaxis of stress gastritis using proton pump inhibitors, etc
- Relatively rare, but potentially life-threatening
- More common in men
- Unknown etiology and triggering factors
- Rupture or erosion of a submucosal vascular malformation, most common along the lesser curvature
- Treatment: Stop bleeding (electrical current, argon gas, etc)
Gastric antral vascular ectasia
(Watermelon
stomach)
- Rare
- Etiology unclear
- Associated with connective tissue diseases, particularly systemic sclerosis
- More common in elder women
- Dilated vessel with fibrin thrombi, fibromuscular hyperplasia and reactive gastropathy
- Chronic bleeding may cause iron deficiency anemia
- Treatment: Laser/plasma coagulation, treatment of iron deficiency anemia
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