What causes reflux esophagitis bleeding?

What causes reflux esophagitis bleeding? You may not know that this disease is a common and frequently occurring disease of the digestive system. It can seriously affect people's physical and mental health and reduce their quality of life. Reflux esophagitis is caused by frequent reflux of gastric acid, which corrodes the esophagus. After falling ill, I hope everyone will pay attention to it, actively seek treatment, and strictly follow the doctor's orders for medication.

Causes of reflux esophagitis bleeding

1. Upper gastrointestinal tract diseases

(1) Esophageal diseases: such as reflux esophagitis, esophageal cancer, esophageal injury, etc.

(2) Gastric and duodenal diseases: such as peptic ulcer, gastric cancer, acute erosive hemorrhagic gastritis, gastric polyps, gastric leiomyoma, gastric vascular abnormalities (such as hemangioma, arteriovenous malformation, etc.), gastric lycopodilation, acute gastric dilatation, gastric torsion, hiatal hernia, duodenitis, postoperative lesions of gastric surgery (such as anastomotic ulcer, residual stomach disease, etc.), parasitic diseases (such as severe hookworm disease, gastric schistosomiasis, etc.).

2. Rupture of varicose veins in the lower esophagus - gastric fundus caused by varicose vein hypertension. Mainly seen in patients with cirrhosis.

3. Diseases of organs or tissues adjacent to the upper digestive tract

(1) Bleeding in the bile duct: such as bile duct or cholelithiasis, biliary ascariasis, liver cancer or hemangioma rupturing into the bile duct.

(2) Pancreatic diseases involving the duodenum: such as pancreatic cancer and acute pancreatitis with external abscess rupture.

4. Systemic diseases

(1) Vascular diseases: such as Henoch-Schonlein purpura, atherosclerosis, etc.

(2) Blood diseases: such as leukemia, hemophilia, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, disseminated intravascular coagulation, etc.

(3) Stress-related gastric mucosal injury: Acute erosive hemorrhagic gastritis and even ulcer formation caused by various serious diseases under stress conditions are collectively referred to as stress-related gastric mucosal injury, which may cause massive bleeding.