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If you find someone died with bowel obstruction could there have been gastrointestinal bleeding?
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MAYBE: Bowel obstruction most commonly leads to bowel perforation that then causes peritonitis ( infection of abdominal cavity) which then leads to sepsis (overwhelming infection). This is a life threatening situation. But of course if there is blood vessel involved, for example a very vascular tumor causing the obstruction, yes there might be bleeding.
Answered 3/31/2016
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Possibly: Significant bleeding with bowel obstruction is not common. If the obstruction was from a cancer bleeding is perhaps more likely but in general this is not a big issue. There can certainly be bleeding associated with surgery for bowel obstruction.
Answered 9/19/2012
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