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Internal Medicine

Gastrointestinal tract

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Blood in
faeces

Bloody Enteric
diarrhoea bleeding

Acute haemor- Non- Severe damage â Coagulo-
rhagic diarrhea Infectious of the pathy
syndrome (AHDS) infectious intestinal wall pp. 18–19

Inflammation Ingestion of – Parvovirosis Mechanical Severe
spreading to irritating – Distemper damage to Mucosal gastrointestinal
the gut substances ulceration parasite
– Salmo- the mucosa
nellosis infestation
– Pancreatitis – Clostridiumspp.
– Giardiosis – Foreign – Iatrogenic
– Coccidiosis body (e.g. therapy
– Tricho- – Trauma with high-
moniasis dose gluco-
corticoids,
NSAIDs)
– Neoplasia
– Uraemic
enterocolitis
– Severe
inflammation

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