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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Obscure
Sections: Key Features, Clinical Findings, Diagnosis, Treatment.
Excerpt: | |  Refers to bleeding of unknown origin that persists or recurs after initial negative endoscopic evaluation with upper endoscopy and colonoscopy
Obscure-overt bleeding is manifested by persistent or recurrent visible evidence of gastrointestinal bleeding (hematemesis, hematochezia, or melena) Obscure-occult bleeding | | – Refers to bleeding that is not apparent to the patient – Manifested by recurrent positive fecal occult blood tests (FOBTs) or fecal immunochemical tests (FITs) or recurrent iron deficiency anemia, or both in the absence of visible blood loss |
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