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At Risk for Esophageal Varices and I Nearly Bleed Out from a Gastric Ulcer:...
If you’ve read any of my posts on primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), you were probably surprised by yesterday’s post that there wasn’t some sort of medical muddle involved. Wonder no longer: there was....
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Of Dieulafoy’s Lesion, Diagnoses and Doctors
In one of my posts last month, At Risk for Esophageal Varices and I Nearly Bleed Out from a Gastric Ulcer: How Weird Is That?, I raised these questions: can a burst esophageal varice adjacent to the...
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Another Bloody August. Mysteries and Muddles. And Hospitalists.
Silly me. I look back on my post from earlier this month, An Uneventful Day, Unlike Last August 2, and wonder. There I wrote about how on August 2, 2010, I had an arterial lesion burst where the...
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PBC, Portal Hypertension, and a Bloody Inconvenient Route
My last post before my world changed on August 28 was “Another Bloody August. Mysteries and Muddles. And Hospitalists” about my second sudden gastric bleed in two years and my second misdiagnosis by...
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Third Time Around: PBC, Portal Hypertension, and a Routine Bleed
This one’s for that small audience of folks with primary biliary cirrhosis or other conditions that lead to portal hypertension, which can lead to burst varices usually in the esophagus or stomach,...
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Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, Portal Hypertension, and the Frustration of...
I haven’t had a post recently on primary biliary cirrhosis. One feature of this blog is the occasional post on what it is like to have this autoimmune condition. In the past two years, I had three...
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Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, Portal Hypertension, My Perfect Endoscopy Results...
This post updates my last one, Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, Portal Hypertension, and the Frustration of Knowing There’s No Way of Knowing What I Need to Know, in which I discussed what a relief it was...
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PBC Bleed 7. The Vesuvius Within Me. Crashing in the Same Car.
Good thing I finally got around this month to describing November’s bleeds 5 and 6 in this continuing realtime account of me and my PBC (primary biliary cirrhosis) because now it’s already time to move...
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My PBC: Collateral Damage
I’ve described the gory consequence of my primary biliary cirrhosis: gastrointestinal bleeds. There’s also collateral damage, for want of a better term, that isn’t so dramatic and isn’t...
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My 13th — and Perhaps Final — Portal Hypertension Bleed
At the end of my previous post, My Mother’s Last Three Days, I announced that I had had my thirteenth portal hypertension bleed at my mother’s death bed.* It had happened. A bleed. A big one. I was...
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