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Endoscopic Hemorrhage: This is Even Harder than the Laparoscope!

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A 62-year-old obese, diabetic, cirrhotic patient with COPD and coronary artery disease has a massive upper gastrointestinal bleed. He is intermittently stable with resuscitation, and you identify a large bleeding duodenal ulcer on your endoscopy.

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Mohamed, R. (2018). Endoscopic Hemorrhage: This is Even Harder than the Laparoscope!. In: Ball, C., Dixon, E. (eds) Treatment of Ongoing Hemorrhage. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63495-1_18

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