title: Abnormal per rectal bleed.
abstract: A 3-year old girl presented to our A&E with a complaint of an acute event of per rectal bleed. The parent had given a history of a visit to a nearby waterfall one day ago. Upon admission she developed hypotension and had a fainting episode due to the excessive passing of blood per rectum. The case report shows how the appropriate investigations were carried out and the twist behind the cause.
authors.affiliation: AIMST University, Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia. avinder.singh.r@gmail.com
authors.forename: Arvinder Harbaksh Singh
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004564:Electrocoagulation; D005260:Female; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007865:Leeches; D012007:Rectum / Q000469:parasitology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome