Exempel på melena

• Portal hypertension may be present, resulting in other conditions including splenomegaly, hematemesis and melena.

• Hematemesis, melena, hemoptysis, hematuria and epistaxis also occur and may lead to hypovolemic shock.

• Blood may be observed in vomit (hematemesis) or in altered form in the stool (melena).

• Gastrointestinal lymphoma causes vomiting, diarrhea, and melena (digested blood in the stool).

• The symptoms can include hematemesis, or vomiting blood; melena, passing black, tarry stools; or passing maroon stools or frank blood in the stools.

• Some individuals may have bleeding in the esophagus, manifesting as vomiting of blood or as melena stools.

• Very often, however, aside from the melena itself, there are no other symptoms.

• Melena is often a medical emergency as it arises from a significant amount of bleeding.

• This is known as melena, and is typically due to bleeding in the upper digestive tract, such as from a bleeding peptic ulcer.

• Adverse events such as vomiting and melena (dark color feces) can also occur.

• For this reason, melena is often associated with blood in the stomach or duodenum (upper gastrointestinal tract), for example by a peptic ulcer.

• A less serious, self-limiting case of melena can occur in newborns two to three days after delivery, due to swallowed maternal blood.

• These include dysphagia, weight loss, anemia, signs of upper gastrointestinal bleeding (such as hematemesis or melena) and jaundice.

• As the disease progresses, hematuria, melena and menorrhagia may develop.

• Melena has a taste for alcohol and pinlobble leaves (which act as a tranquiliser).