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Patients-with ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke are at risk for systemic complications. The reasons why gastrointestinal bleeding occurs after stroke are unknown and have intuitively been attributed to stress ulcers. No study to date has addressed causes of gastrointestinal hemorrhage in stroke.
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Gastrointestinal bleeding in stroke
EF Wijdicks, JR Fulgham and KP Batts
Stroke 1994;25;2146-2148
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