(1) 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.
(2) The two patients were women, one a 45-year-old who consulted for pain, epigastric discomfort and melenas, and the other a 76-year-old who consulted for paraneoplastic syndrome and a palpable mass in the right lower quadrant.
(3) A case of primary lymphoma of the stomach with massive hematemesis and melena who underwent emergency gastrectomy is reported.
(4) In all active rectal haemorrhages (14 massive, 41 medium) an urgent colonoscopy has been carried out with a percentage of success of 90%; in the 20 cases of unexplained melena, colonoscopy has not led to a diagnosis; in the 14 patients with unexplained anemia, colonoscopy has shown 2 carcinomas, whereas in the 5 cases with occult blood in stools it has been diagnostic in the percentage of 60%.
(5) A 60-year-old man was admitted with the complaint of melena.
(6) Exploratory abdominal surgery in a budgerigar with a history of lethargy, feather fluffing, and melena revealed a neoplastic mass associated with the jejunal muscularis.
(7) Three patients have had melena and one had persistently guaiac-positive stools.
(8) Hematemesis and melena may be observed as in the Rendu-Osler disease.
(9) The results indicate that lethargy is an important symptom in patients with intussusception when occurring in association with vomiting, melena, or a palpable abdominal mass, or all three.
(10) One patient had three days of melena and responded to non-operative therapy.
(11) Epistaxis was diagnosed in 10 patients with apparent upper gastrointestinal bleeding, comprising a 0.55% incidence of hematemesis and melena in the population studied.
(12) In 1986, she had a history of melena and prolonged bleeding after dental extraction.
(13) After the operation, she developed ascites and watery diarrhea, though there was no episode of hematemesis and melena.
(14) A 50-year-old woman was admitted on Feb. 25, 1983, complaining of hematemesis and melena.
(15) An 82-year-old woman presented with extensive hematomas and melena associated with markedly decreased plasma factor V coagulant activity (FV:C).
(16) The diagnosis of a bleeding Meckel's diverticulum was made by angiography in a 71 year old man who presented with melena and hemorrhagic shock.
(17) Hematemesis, melena, shock, vague symptoms, anemia, blood examinations and endoscopic findings are reviewed as signs of recent hemorrhage.
(18) 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.
(19) We reported a 44 year old man with micronodular cirrhosis who eventually died from massive hematemesis and melena.
(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.
Melene
Definition:
(n.) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C30H60, of the ethylene series, obtained from beeswax as a white, scaly, crystalline wax; -- called also melissene, and melissylene.
Example Sentences:
(1) The raccoon was weak, ataxic and had melenic soft feces.