Haematemesis

Haematemesis

the vomiting of blood.

Causes can be

•  Mallory-Weiss syndrome: bleeding tears in the esophageal mucosa,
•   Irritation or erosion of the lining of the esophagus or stomach.
•  Vomiting of ingested blood after hemorrhage in the oral cavity, nose or throat.

• Tumors of the stomach or esophagus.
• Radiation poisoning
• Viral hemorrhagic fevers
• Gastroenteritis
• Gastritis
• Peptic ulcer
• Chronic viral hepatitis
• Intestinal schistosomiasis (caused by the parasite Schistosoma mansoni)
• History of smoking
• Iatrogenic injury (invasive procedure such as endoscopy or transesophageal echocardiography)
• Zollinger–Ellison syndrome (severe peptic ulcer)
• Atrio-oesophageal fistula
• Yellow fever