Symptom
Melena
The passage of black, tarry, foul-smelling stools containing digested blood, typically indicating upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage, most often from the esophagus, stomach, or duodenum. Possible causes are peptic ulcer disease, gastritis, esophagitis, esophageal varices, Mallory-Weiss tear, medications (NSAIDs, aspirin, anticoagulants), tumor/polyps, nosebleed, and hemoptysis.
Also known as: Melaena, Gastrointestinal hemorrhage
Referencing diagnoses
- Abdominal compartment syndrome
- Acute liver failure
- Acute mesenteric ischemia
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Aortoenteric fistula
- Benign neoplasm of the small intestine
- Colorectal cancer
- Colorectal polyp
- Crohn disease
- Dieulafoys lesion
- Esophageal cancer
- Esophageal perforation
- Esophageal varices
- Gastric cancer
- Gastric lymphoma
- Gastrinoma
- Gastritis
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Gastrointestinal hemorrhage
- Gastrointestinal obstruction
- Henoch-Schönlein purpura
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Ischemic colitis
- Menetriers disease
- Perforated ulcer
- Renal failure
- Shock
- Small bowel cancer
- Ulcer disease
Note: Lists existing diagnoses in Diagnotize only.