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Medical condition

Intestinal varices
Specialty	Gastroenterology Hematology
Symptoms	Coffee ground vomiting Hematochezia
Complications	Internal bleeding, hypovolemic shock, cardiac arrest

Intestinal varices are dilated submucosal veins in the intestine.One treatment includes a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt.

References

Haskal ZJ, Scott M, Rubin RA, Cope C (April 1994). "Intestinal varices: treatment with the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt". Radiology. 191 (1): 183–7. doi:10.1148/radiology.191.1.8134568. PMID 8134568.

Inflammation	Arteritis Aortitis Buerger's disease
Arteriosclerosis	Atherosclerosis Foam cell Fatty streak Atheroma Cholesterol LDL Oxycholesterol Trans fat Monckeberg's arteriosclerosis Hyaline arteriolosclerosis Hyperplastic arteriolosclerosis
Peripheral artery disease	Stenosis Carotid artery stenosis Renal artery stenosis Aortoiliac occlusive disease Critical limb ischemia Degos disease Erythromelalgia Fibromuscular dysplasia Hepatic artery thrombosis Intermittent claudication Raynaud's phenomenon
Aneurysm / dissection / pseudoaneurysm	torso: Aortic aneurysm Abdominal aortic aneurysm Thoracic aortic aneurysm Aneurysm of sinus of Valsalva Aortic dissection Aortic rupture Coronary artery aneurysm head / neck Intracranial aneurysm Intracranial berry aneurysm Carotid artery dissection Vertebral artery dissection Familial aortic dissection
Vascular malformation	Arteriovenous fistula Arteriovenous malformation Telangiectasia Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia Generalized essential telangiectasia
Vascular nevus	Cherry hemangioma Halo nevus Spider angioma

Inflammation	Phlebitis
Venous thrombosis / Thrombophlebitis	primarily lower limb Deep vein thrombosis abdomen Hepatic veno-occlusive disease Budd–Chiari syndrome May–Thurner syndrome Portal vein thrombosis Renal vein thrombosis upper limb / torso Mondor's disease Paget–Schroetter disease Pulmonary embolism head Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis Post-thrombotic syndrome
Varicose veins	Gastric varices Portacaval anastomosis Caput medusae Esophageal varices Hemorrhoid Varicocele
Other	Chronic venous insufficiency Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency Superior vena cava syndrome Inferior vena cava syndrome Venous ulcer

Arteries or veins

Hypertension	Hypertensive heart disease Hypertensive emergency Hypertensive nephropathy Essential hypertension Secondary hypertension Renovascular hypertension Benign hypertension Pulmonary hypertension Systolic hypertension White coat hypertension
Hypotension	Orthostatic hypotension Shock (circulatory)

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