
Lower GI Bleeding
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Is There a Source of Bleeding?
i like to think about various clues from the history that may point me, point me towards a particular diagnosis. If there having significant abdona pain a accompanied by diarrhoea, if theyr having extra intestinal manifestations of potential inflammatory bol disease I'm thinking this could be an inflammatory a cause. And then you know, patients with neo plastic causes colo colon or rectyl cancer, they may have alarm symptoms in addition to the rectal bleeding. So typically these patients have been bleeding for a while. There'll actually be evidence of iron deficiency, anemia, as opposed to the normal sidiconemia that you'll see with acute presentations of bleed. The lastly, we mention how
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