comorbid conditions that increase mortality of upper GI bleed

Etiology

Cardiac disease:

• dysrhythmia
• acute myocardial infarction
• symptomatic cardiac ischemia
• symptomatic congestive heart failure

Liver disease:

• cirrhosis
• acute alcoholic hepatitis

Pulmonary disease:

• acute respiratory failure
• pneumonia
• symptomatic COPD

Renal disease:

• renal insufficiency (serum creatinine > 4.0 mg/dL)
• dialysis

Neurologic disease:

• delirium
• dementia
• stroke within 6 months

Malignancy: (active)

Infection: (disseminated)

More general terms

• comorbidity

Additional terms

• mortality
• upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage