Gastrointestinal Bleeding

• From the National Institutes of Health
• Bleeding in the Digestive Tract (National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

• Overviews
• Understanding GI Bleeding (American College of Gastroenterology)

• Anatomy/Physiology
• Atlas of the Body: The Digestive System (American Medical Association)

• Diagnosis/Symptoms
• Abdominal Pain, Short-Term (American Academy of Family Physicians)
• Colonoscopy (National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse)
• Colonoscopy (Patient Education Institute) - Requires Flash Player
  Also available in: Spanish
• Fecal Occult Blood Test (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
• Fecal Occult Blood Test: Checking for Blood in Stool (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
• Flexible Sigmoidoscopy (National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse)
• Lower GI Series (National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse)
• Sigmoidoscopy (Patient Education Institute) - Requires Flash Player
  Also available in: Spanish
• Small Bowel Bleeding and Capsule Endoscopy (American College of Gastroenterology)
• Understanding Capsule Endoscopy (American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy)
• Upper Endoscopy (National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

• Treatment
• Shunt Surgical Procedures (American Liver Foundation)
• What You Need to Know about the Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS) (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)

• Clinical Trials
• ClinicalTrials.gov: Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage (National Institutes of Health)

• Specific Conditions
• Bleeding Varices (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
• Rectal Bleeding (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
• Stool Color: When to Worry (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)

• Dictionaries/Glossaries
• Digestive Diseases Dictionary (National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse)
• Glossary of Terms (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

• Organizations
• American College of Gastroenterology
• American Gastroenterological Association
• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

• Children
• Stool Tests (Nemours Foundation)

• Information from the Medical Encyclopedia
• Gastrointestinal Bleeding