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MDCT of Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding

¹ Department of Radiology, North Western Adelaide Health Service, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Campus, Adelaide, South Australia 5011, Australia.
² Present address: Department of Imaging, Mid Western Area Health Service, OBH, Dalton St., Orange, New South Wales 2800, Australia.
³ Present address: Department of Neuroradiology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC V5Z1P4, Canada.

OBJECTIVE. We evaluated the use of MDCT in the diagnosis and management of lower gastrointestinal bleeding (hematochezia).

CONCLUSION. MDCT is proposed as an alternative first-line investigation to locate lower gastrointestinal bleeding before placing the patient under observation or performing embolization or surgery.

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