What is the cause of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding?

The main causes of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding are peptic ulcer, esophageal and gastric varices rupture, gastric cancer, etc.

1, peptic ulcer

peptic ulcer mainly includes gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, gastrointestinal mucosa will be damaged after the disease, easy to cause bleeding, if the damage is more serious, may lead to acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding.

2, esophageal and gastric varices rupture

most of the time due to increased portal pressure, esophageal and gastric varices rupture, can lead to massive bleeding, need immediate treatment.

3, gastric cancer Gastric

cancer is one of the malignant tumors of the digestive tract, can cause upper gastrointestinal bleeding, most cases due to cancer cells destroyed gastric mucosa blood vessels or tumor itself rupture caused.