title: Angiography in gastointestinal bleeding.
abstract: Over a four-year period, eight patients with documented gastrointestinal bleeding had angiography as a part of their investigation and treatment at the Department of Radiology, Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia. A review of these eighty cases has been carried out and angiography has been found to be both safe and reliable in the diagnosis of gastrointestinal bleeding. Cautiously administered intra-arterial pitressin infusion therapy will arrest bleeding in about one-third of cases and in most others will reduce blood loss so that a critically ill patient may be made more fit for subsequent surgery. Patients who have recently received intravenous pitressin should not be given intra-arterial pitressin.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D007269:Injections, Intra-Arterial; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012007:Rectum; D014667:Vasopressins / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D014667:Vasopressins