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  2. Rockall score - Wikipedia

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    Variable [2] Score 0 Score 1 Score 2 Score 3 Age <60 60- 79 >80 Shock: No shock Pulse >100 BP >100 Systolic SBP <100 : Co-morbidity Nil major CHF, IHD, major morbidity : kidney failure, liver failure, metastatic cancer

  3. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding - Wikipedia

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    In people with a confirmed peptic ulcer, proton pump inhibitors do not reduce death rates, later bleeding events, or need for surgery. [18] They may decrease signs of bleeding at endoscopy however. [18] In those with less severe disease and where endoscopy is rapidly available, they are of less immediate clinical importance. [16]

  4. Acute esophageal necrosis - Wikipedia

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    The symptoms vary from the severity of the disorder. The most classic sign of AEN is the dark pigmentation of esophageal mucosa in an upper endoscopy, usually viewed as an ulcer or as an infectious disease. [6] Necrosis can be found mostly between the three distals of the esophagus, but stops abruptly at the gastroesophageal junction. [2]

  5. List of human disease case fatality rates - Wikipedia

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    Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.

  6. This disease kills more people than all cancers and accidents ...

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    The age-adjusted death rate decreased slightly from last year, however. Read On The Fox News App In 2022 — the most recent year for which mortality data is available — a total of 941,652 ...

  7. Peptic ulcer disease - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, surgery and angiographic embolism are reserved for these complicated cases. However, there is a higher rate of complication for those who underwent surgery to patch the stomach bleeding site when compared to repeated endoscopy. Angiographic embolisation has a higher rebleeding rate but a similar rate of death to surgery. [15]

  8. Colonoscopy - Wikipedia

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    (This interval does not apply to people at high risk of colorectal cancer or those who experience symptoms of the disease.) [28] [29] The large randomized pragmatic clinical trial NordICC was the first published trial on the use of colonoscopy as a screening test to prevent colorectal cancer, related death, and death from any cause. It included ...

  9. What is ‘Disease X’ and why are experts worried? - AOL

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    A 2022 statement from the World Health Organization (WHO), defines the term this way: “Disease X is [used] to indicate an unknown pathogen that could cause a serious international epidemic.”