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A 69-year-old man with a past medical history of asthma, chronic back pain and hypertension presented with symptoms of light headedness, epigastric pain and blood-mixed bowel movement of 2 days duration. Since the past 9 months the patient had been taking two to three pills of ibuprofen almost on a daily basis for his back pain. He had also received short courses of prednisone tablets frequently in the last 6 months for his poorly controlled asthma. On arrival in the emergency room, his blood pressure was 84/48 mm Hg, heart rate 121/min, respiratory rate 18/min, temperature 36°C and oxygen saturation was 94% on room air. His haemoglobin (Hb) was 7.2 mg/dL. The patient was given proton pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy, volume resuscitated and was admitted to the intensive care unit. After 2 units of packed red blood cell transfusion his Hb was 9.1 mg/dL. He underwent upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy which showed two openings into...
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