blood in stool

Description

Bloody diarrhea; Hematochezia (red blood in stool from intestinal bleeding); Melena (black stool from digested blood);

Category

Gastrointestinal

ICD-9 Code

578.1

ICD-10 Code

R19.5; K92.1

Diseases

Diseases associated with this finding or symptom:

• Anthrax
• Arenaviral hemorrhagic fevers (S. America)
• Campylobacter enteritis
• Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
• Dengue fever
• Ebola-Marburg viral diseases
• Entamoeba histolytica infection
• Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
• Hendra and Nipah viral diseases
• Hookworm disease
• Kyasanur forest disease
• Lassa fever
• Leptospirosis
• Omsk hemorrhagic fever
• Relapsing fever
• Rift valley fever
• Salmonellosis
• Schistosomiasis, hepatic and intestinal
• Shigellosis
• Strongyloidiasis
• Tuberculosis
• Typhoid fever
• Typhus, mite-borne scrub
• Yellow fever