What's the difference between haematemesis and hematemesis?
Haematemesis
Definition:
(n.) Same as Hematemesis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of seven patients with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis (exhibiting hepatic fibrosis, splenomegaly, at least one episode of haematemesis, ascites), five showed markedly enhanced antipyrine half-life and reduced clearance.
(2) A pharmacokinetic study of ranitidine was performed in 14 patients with haematemesis divided into two groups according to the severity of blood loss.
(3) Oesophago-gastro-duodenoscopy was successfully performed in 196 of 208 patients admitted with haematemesis or melaena, or both.
(4) Presentation was failure to thrive in 19 (95 per cent), recurrent vomiting in 18 (90 per cent) and haematemesis in 14 (70 per cent).
(5) We report the management of a case of malignant trophoblastic disease which presented initially as a haematemesis and melaena from a gastric metastasis.
(6) Attention is drawn to the occurrence of haematemesis in 17-5% and melaena in 2-9% of infants.
(7) However, severe haemorrhagic syndrome with petechia, haematoma, haematemesis and melaena was present in one patient only.
(8) Haematemesis occurred in 20 patients and was associated with shorter incubation periods (P less than 0.02), facial exposure sites (P = 0.021), and severe injuries (P = 0.047).
(9) In a prospective study of death in 817 patients with haematemesis and melaena admitted on 894 occasions, the protocol included admission of all patients to a defined unit, early endoscopy and resuscitation, and planned management.
(10) The reported case suggests that patients with EDS type IV especially when presenting with haematemesis and melaena should be investigated for reflux, since bleeding might be due to the action of reflux on the fragile-walled vessels of such patients.
(11) A 16-year-old girl who had previously been in good health suffered recurrent life-threatening haematemesis.
(12) In a prospective study of patients with haematemesis and melaena, there were 22 admissions of patients with bleeding stomal ulceration, representing 2.5% of total admissions to the Unit.
(13) A prospective study of patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding admitted to a haematemesis and melaena unit has revealed an incidence of Mallory-Weiss tears of 8% (59 of 762 patients undergoing endoscopy).
(14) Haematemesis (n = 1) and pulmonary oedema (n = 2) developed 12 hours after the admission.
(15) Haematemesis in children with splenomegalia and a history of neonatal umbilical vein catheterization should involve careful examination for oesophageal varices due to portal hypertension.
(16) It is suggested that all large hospitals should have haematemesis and melaena units, as they do coronary care units, but that there is no advantage to be gained by a policy of aggressive treatment.
(17) One patient suffered from a haematemesis which required transfusion, and in a further patient the tear resulted in a haematemesis and gastric perforation necessitating laparotomy.
(18) An increasing body of data suggests that the antihaemostatic as well as the ulcerogenic actions of aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may be operative when patients present with haematemesis and melaena.
(19) The stress-induced peptic ulcer manifests itself in haematemesis, melaena, blood in the stools and in perforation.
(20) The report illustrates that, particularly in young patients, the possibility of a primary tumour in the testis should be considered when a tumour mass is found in the upper abdomen, even if other symptoms suggestive of primary gastro-intestinal disorders, such as melaena and haematemesis, are also present.
Hematemesis
Definition:
(n.) A vomiting of blood.
Example Sentences:
(1) A patient with abdominal discomfort and hematemesis was found to have lower esophageal inflammation on endoscopy.
(2) A 54 year old white male died three months after hospitalization for hematemesis and melena due to a duodenal ulcer and two monthos after the subsequent onset of progressive ascites and edema.
(3) A case of primary lymphoma of the stomach with massive hematemesis and melena who underwent emergency gastrectomy is reported.
(4) This brief historical data of a patient dying of severe hematemesis as a result of broncho-esophago-aortal fistula in primary pulmonary cavitating carcinoma is presented.
(5) The diagnosis is suggested by the triad of chronic dysphagia, hematemesis, and acute neurologic signs.
(6) Hematemesis and melena may be observed as in the Rendu-Osler disease.
(7) Epistaxis was diagnosed in 10 patients with apparent upper gastrointestinal bleeding, comprising a 0.55% incidence of hematemesis and melena in the population studied.
(8) After the operation, she developed ascites and watery diarrhea, though there was no episode of hematemesis and melena.
(9) Except for one who developed mild hematemesis 3 days after treatment, all patients tolerated the drug very well.
(10) The first patient died within a few minutes of admission from a cataclysmic hematemesis.
(11) A 50-year-old woman was admitted on Feb. 25, 1983, complaining of hematemesis and melena.
(12) In a small number of cases, an aortic false aneurysm or an esophago-bronchial fistula can produce respiratory symptoms without hematemesis, Mediastinal widening on chest X-ray films usually suggests a false aneurysm but it must be differentiated from a mediastinal abscess or a tumor mass.
(13) A case of massive hematemesis from a duodenal ulcer on the third puerperal day is described.
(14) This rarely recognized condition may be an explanation for some cases of cryptic hematemesis.
(15) Hematemesis, melena, shock, vague symptoms, anemia, blood examinations and endoscopic findings are reviewed as signs of recent hemorrhage.
(16) Simultaneously with the hypogastric pain, hypotension, growing circumference of the abdomen and increasing anaemia--without hematemesis or melena--referred to intraabdominal hemorrhage, which was confirmed by diagnostic paracentesis.
(17) A two and a half-year old child is described who presented with signs of portal hypertension (hematemesis, hepatosplenomegaly, ascites).
(18) We reported a 44 year old man with micronodular cirrhosis who eventually died from massive hematemesis and melena.
(19) She died of massive hematemesis and exsanguination on the 14th postoperative day.
(20) Histamine H2 antagonists are widely used in treating patients with hematemesis and melena, despite the lack of reliable evidence of benefit from any of the randomized trials, considered separately.