{"id":577,"date":"2023-05-16T16:33:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T16:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/?p=577"},"modified":"2023-05-16T16:33:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T16:33:19","slug":"1-what-are-the-causes-of-bright-red-rectal-bleeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"1. What are the causes of bright red rectal bleeding?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<script src=\"https:\/\/cdn.synthesys.io\/js\/synthesys_widget.js?v=3.6\"><\/script>\n<script>\n    var sysWidget = new SysWidget({ token: \"9bbd3456-d045-41e7-894f-fcf8b2ec8b57\" }); \n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Correct answer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The passage of bright red blood per rectum is a common symptom, which the patient usually attributes to \u2018piles\u2019; indeed, haemorrhoids are by far the commonest cause of rectal bleeding. It is important, however, to bear in mind a list of possible causes of this symptom.<br>(1) General causes: bleeding disorders (rare).<br>(2) Local causes: tumours of the colon and rectum (benign or malignant); haemorrhoids; diverticular disease; ulcerative colitis; fissure in ano; haemorrhage (rarely); angiodysplasia of the colon; trauma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correct answer: The passage of bright red blood per rectum is a common symptom, which the patient usually attributes to \u2018piles\u2019; indeed, haemorrhoids are by far the commonest cause of rectal bleeding. It is important, however, to bear in mind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}