A 39-year-old woman with no known risk factors presented for a recurrent upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleed. She had a prior history of failed kidney and pancreatic transplants secondary to childhood diabetes mellitus type I. After an extensive workup, she was found to have active hemorrhage into an area of the small bowel from an artery supplying her failed pancreatic transplant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: In a minority of patients with gastrointestinal bleeding, the offending lesion is not able to be identified using colonoscopy or esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). For these patients, video capsule endoscopy has become a cornerstone for the diagnosis of gastrointestinal bleeding in the territory not accessible by colonoscopy or EGD. One uncommon cause of bleeding from the small bowel is a gastrointestinal stromal tumor.
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