Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Aurora D. Pryor, MDProfessor and Chief, Division of Bariatric, Foregut and Advanced GI SurgeryStony Brook MedicineDepartment of SurgeryStony Brook, NY USATheodore N. Pappas, MDDistinguished Professor of Surgical Innovation Chief, Division of General & Advanced GI Surgery Vice Dean for Medical Affairs, School of Medicine Duke UniversityDuke University Medical CenterDepartment of SurgeryDurham, NCUSAM. Stanley Branch, MDDuke University Medical CenterDepartment of MedicineDivision of GastroenterologyDurham, NC USA

• Stabilization of Patients Presenting with Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Urgent Workup for Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Management of Esophageal Variceal Bleeding.- Management of Dieulafoy’s Lesions.- Management of Bleeding Peptic Ulcer Disease.- Management of Unusual Sources of Upper GI Bleeding.- Mallory–Weiss Syndrome.- Diagnosis and Management of Bleeding Small Bowel Tumors.- Management of Bleeding from the Bile Duct.- Management of Bleeding from the Pancreas.- Urgent Workup of Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Bleeding Hemorrhoids.- Management of Colonic Diverticular Bleeding and Bleeding Colitis.- Colonic Arteriovenous Malformations.- Bleeding Colorectal Tumors.- Evaluation of the Guaiac Positive Patient.- Endoscopic Techniques for Evaluating Small Bowel Blood Loss: Video Capsule and Device-Assisted Enteroscopy.- Provocative Angiography.- The Unstable Patient with Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Surgical and Non-surgical Management.