| Manifestations range from asymptomatic blood loss with positive faecal blood test, to melaena or haematemesis, to hypovolemic shock. |
| The patient represented ten months after the laryngectomy and neck dissection with a one day history of intermittent haemoptysis and haematemesis of fresh blood. |
| Patients may present with occult bleeding, melaena, haematemesis and anaemia. |
| Open image in new window Fig. 11 Aorto-duodenal fistulae in a 75-year-old male patient presenting with melena and haematemesis. |
| Ergot is used in therapeutics as a haemostatic, and is very valuable in haemoptysis and sometimes in haematemesis. |
| We describe two patients with alcoholic liver disease and haematemesis whose bleeding was not controlled by endoscopic treatment. |
