Haemobilia: rare cause of gastrointestinal bleding. Clinical presentations, etiology, management. Our experiences –10 case reports

Introduction: Among the rare causes of “difficult-to-diagnose-and-to-treat” gastrointestinal bleeding is the phenomenon of hemobilia, that is defined as bleeding into the biliary tree. Bleeding may be prolonged or brief, continuous or episodic, profuse or scant. Haemobilia may arise from trauma, inflammation, malignancy, iatrogenic causes or vascular anomalies and even spontaneously in the setting of coagulopathy. Patients & methods: Between the period of 2007 and 2012, 10 patients (age: 28–82 ys, 5 male and 5 female pts) were admitted to our department with massive hemobilia. Symptoms were upper gastrointestina…