Melena

07/30/2021 - "The patient was followed after surgical resection and her symptoms improved dramatically with no additional episodes of melena and with the normalization of hemoglobin."
03/01/2022 - "The patient's symptoms improved to the point where she no longer complained of melena, and her hemoglobin level normalized. "
06/01/2023 - "We describe a case of an 85-year-old woman presenting with melena and a hemoglobin of 66 g/L. "
01/01/2023 - "Melena, hemoglobin below 8 gm%, the need for volume replacement, and packed red blood cells transfusion on admission were associated with significant endoscopic lesions, which needed endotherapies. "
05/01/2022 - "On the 9th day after the procedure, he presented with melena and decreasing hemoglobin levels. "

12/05/2012 - "Introduction of infliximab dramatically relieved the patient's melena and abdominal symptoms. "
12/01/2021 - "A 49-year-old-male with a 21-year history of left sided UC in remission on Infliximab (10 years) presented to our ED with orthostatic symptoms and melena. "
06/22/2014 - "We report a case of common variable immune deficiency-related Crohn's-like disease presenting massive melena, which was successfully treated by short course infliximab therapy. "

04/01/2013 - "In this report, we presented a Chinese patient with recurrent melena due to gastric angiodysplasia in HHT treated successfully with thalidomide."
08/01/2018 - "Two patients were treated systemically with thalidomide, and their symptoms of epistaxis, melena, and anemia were notably improved.Patients"

02/15/2018 - "The patient was discharged 48 hours later with prescriptions for acid suppressant and triple antithrombotic therapy; his melena had resolved before discharge. "
07/01/2015 - "Seventy patients in whom gastric endoscopy was performed because of nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, bloating, acid reflux, melena, and other gastrointestinal symptoms were enrolled in this study from Dec. "
06/25/2021 - "She occasionally presented acid regurgitation and heartburn, with no abdominal pain, abdominal distension, melena, or hematochezia. "
07/02/2023 - "Methods: The retrospective cohort study was conducted on 125 children with gastroscopy and positive rapid urease test (RUT) from September 2016 to December 2018 who presented to the Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine due to gastrointestinal symptoms including nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, bloating, acid reflux, heartburn, chest pain, vomiting blood and melena. "
07/01/2010 - "Between visits, patients were asked to report to the outpatient clinic if they had persistent ulcer or GI symptoms (dyspepsia, vomiting, nausea, heartburn, or acid regurgitation) not relieved by antacids for 1 week, or to the emergency department if they had evidence of GI bleeding or ulcer complications (melena, hematemesis, hematochezia, or sudden onset of severe epigastric pain). "

05/01/2017 - "Epistaxis and melena decreased markedly during bevacizumab treatment. "
01/01/2015 - "After the resection of duodenal metastasis followed by three cycles of cisplatinum based chemotherapy with Bevacizumab, melena resolved completely. "
01/01/2016 - "Melena was revealed 2 months after the final treatment with bevacizumab, and an endoscopic study revealed a duodenal ulcer (DU) that was resistant to anti-ulcer therapy. "

03/01/2020 - "In primary ITP dogs, a 2-tailed Fisher's exact test was performed comparing survival to discharge between dogs with and without melena and to relate response to treatment and relapse to changes in APA and platelet count (repeated measures analysis, Spearman correlation). "
03/01/2023 - "The management of primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is becoming a subject of interest as there appears to be treatment failure and resistance to modern conventional treatment, necessitating a more universal and goal-directed approach to management. Our patient is a 74-year-old male who was diagnosed with ITP six years ago and recently presented to the emergency department (ED) with complaints of melena stools and severe fatigue lasting for two days. "
02/01/2023 - "The patient presented with signs and symptoms consistent with ITP: an isolated low platelet count of 1 x 109/L, petechia, fatigue, normal coagulation parameters, recurrent epistaxis, and melena. "
07/15/2021 - "Case #2: 67 year male with past medical history of chronic ITP in remission was admitted for melena 2 days after receiving his first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. "

09/01/2020 - "The patient developed sudden melena with fresh blood without abdominal symptoms 1 month after beginning antibiotic therapy. "
11/01/1999 - "In the course of an antibiotic therapy, there was no melena detectable over a period of six months. "
01/01/2012 - "Under antibiotics, the evolution of sepsis improved, but over a period of 10 months 5 episodes of haematemesis and melena, followed by one episode of macroscopic haematuria occurred; two months later he developed an inguino-crural mass, which fistulized through the abdominal wall. "

08/30/2013 - "The melena and CMV antigenemia was improved with ganciclovir; however the patient died from worsening of hepatic failure. "
12/01/2017 - "Despite ganciclovir treatment, the patient developed new erosions in the jejunal mucosa and melena; ganciclovir was discontinued, and foscarnet was started, resulting in clinical improvement and the cessation of bleeding. "

07/15/2021 - "Case #2: 67 year male with past medical history of chronic ITP in remission was admitted for melena 2 days after receiving his first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. "
01/01/2021 - "A 95-year-old male developed general subcutaneous petechiae, tongue hematoma, and melena two days after receiving the second BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. "

01/01/2013 - "Treatment with lenalidomide, as the final therapeutic option, resolved the intractable melena and improved both the intestinal lesions and myeloma. "
03/01/2017 - "We recorded ten severe adverse events in nine patients due to febrile neutropenia (n=4), diarrhoea (n=2), melena, stroke, vomiting, and intestinal infarction; all but one patient recovered, and six of these patients continued with lenalidomide treatment. "

01/01/2021 - "We present a case of a 60-year-old man with metastatic SCC of the tongue status after radiation and chemotherapy who presented with fatigue and melena. "
01/01/2019 - "She tolerated 13 cycles of chemotherapy without any significant hematological side effects, but after the 14th cycle, she developed melena and was admitted for severe thrombocytopenia. "
11/01/2013 - "[A case of melena and perforation during chemotherapy for peripheral T-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified of the small intestine]."
03/01/1997 - "Six weeks after the start of chemotherapy, severe abdominal pain and melena occurred. "
07/01/1994 - "Severe abdominal pain and melena occurred one day after completion of the second course of chemotherapy. "

02/01/2021 - "He did not want invasive therapy and died from massive melena 2 months after the initial surgery. "
10/01/2018 - "Only one patient developed melena after TPA therapy which self-resolved. "
12/28/2012 - "Anti-secretary therapy was initiated for hemostasis, but melena still occurred off and on. "
03/01/1984 - "As adverse events, mild melena with prolonged prothrombin time (1) was found to be associated with the CAZ therapy. "
01/01/1976 - "One patient had three days of melena and responded to non-operative therapy. "

05/01/2000 - "Blood transfusions and arterial embolization were performed; however, continuous melena prevented improvement in their general condition. "
03/01/2023 - "All three patients presented with melena and hemodynamic instability, resuscitated with adequate blood transfusions. "
02/01/2021 - "Due to persis tent melena, the patient required a new blood transfusion. "
02/26/2019 - "During hospitalisation, he required several blood transfusions and maintained melenas. "
05/01/2016 - "A 13-year old girl presented with symptomatic melena requiring repeated blood transfusion since childhood. "

01/01/1998 - "Our patient presented to a local hospital with severe melena as the initial main symptom, where ligation of the right hepatic artery was performed. "
07/01/1976 - "The surgical ligature of the main hepatic artery determined the complete regression of the abdominal pain and melena: the high output cardiac failure also disappeared with surgical correction."
03/05/2021 - "Two sessions of endoscopic vessel ligation for esophageal varices were performed afterwards, and hematemesis resolved completely, but massive melena still recurred during the following 5 years. "
11/01/2002 - "We report the case of a 58-year-old woman with cirrhosis who presented with melena after successful ligation of gastroesophageal varices 1 week earlier. "
10/27/2020 - "We did a similar study at our center (n = 170) to look at incidence of re-bleeding after band ligation defined as drop in 2 units of hemoglobin and witnessed melena or hematemesis within 2 wk of the procedure. "

03/06/2022 - "The second case was managed with endoscopic removal of the fishbone with simultaneous endovascular stent-graft treatment, without any signs of hematemesis or melena. "
01/01/2020 - "Two weeks later, she presented with nausea and melena, and she was found to have an infected stent graft on imaging. "
02/01/2016 - "Three years after stent insertion, the patient complained of mild abdominal pain and melena; it was revealed endoscopically that the covered stent has eroded the stomach wall and migrated into the stomach. "
01/01/2014 - "This report describes the successful use of portal venous stent placement for a patient with recurrent melena secondary to jejunal varices that developed after subtotal stomach preserved pancreatoduodenectomy (SSPPD). "
04/01/1999 - "Portal venous pressure significantly decreased from 25.3 +/- 7.4 mmHg to 22.4 +/- 6.6 mmHg (p < 0.0001) immediately after stent placement, leading to improvement in gastroesophageal varices, melena and ascites. "