Difference between revisions of "Hemorrhage"

Revision as of 11:17, 13 November 2011

See also : bleeding

By origin

• Mouth
  • Hematemesis - vomiting fresh blood
  • Hemoptysis - coughing up blood from the lungs
• Hematochezia - rectal blood
• Hematuria - blood in the urine from urinary bleeding
• Upper head
  • Intracranial hemorrhage - bleeding in the skull.
  • Cerebral hemorrhage - a type of intracranial hemorrhage, bleeding within the brain tissue itself.
  • Intracerebral hemorrhage - bleeding in the brain caused by the rupture of a blood vessel within the head.
  • Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) implies the presence of blood within the subarachnoid space from some pathologic process. The common medical use of the term SAH refers to the nontraumatic types of hemorrhages, usually from rupture of a berry aneurysm or arteriovenous malformation(AVM). The scope of this article is limited to these nontraumatic hemorrhages.
• Lung
  • Pulmonary hemorrhage
• Gynecologic
  • Vaginal bleeding
    • Postpartum hemorrhage
    • Breakthrough bleeding
    • First trimester bleeding
    • Antepartum hemorrhage
  • Ovarian bleeding. This is a potentially catastrophic and not so rare complication among lean patients with polycystic ovary syndrome undergoing transvaginal oocyte retrieval.
• Upper gastrointestinal bleed