Causes of upper gastrointestinal bleeding


  • Duodenal ulcer-35%
  • Gastric ulcer -20%
  • Acute gastritis (drugs)
  • Erosion/haemorrhagic gastritis -20%
  • Mallory-Weiss syndrome-5%
  • Gastric carcinoma- 5%
  • Oesophageal varices- 10%
  • Others- 5%
  • (Leiomyoma, haemophilia, thrombocytopenia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, rupture of aorta into stomach, anticoagulants)