Template:Upper GI bleeding peds DDX

Upper GI Bleeding (peds)

• <2mo
  • Swallowed maternal blood (from chapped nipples)
  • Stress ulcer
  • Vascular malformation
  • Hemorrhagic disease of newborn (vitamin K deficiency)
  • Coagulopathy/bleeding diathesis

• 2mo–2yr
  • Gastroenteritis
  • Toxic ingestion
  • Mallory-Weiss tear
  • Vascular malformation
  • Esophagitis
  • Stress ulcer
  • Coagulopathy/bleeding diathesis
  • GI duplication
  • Ingested foreign body

• >2yr
  • Gastroenteritis
  • Mallory-Weiss tear
  • Peptic ulcer disease
  • Toxic ingestion
  • Vascular malformation
  • Gastritis
  • Varices
  • Hemobilia
  • Ingested foreign body