Management of Mallory-Weiss syndrome
The management of a bleeding Mallory-Weiss tear involves:
- waiting for the bleeding to stop spontaneously
- if bleeding continues then options include:
- oversewing at the bleeding point
- Sengstaken-Blakemore tube application to bleed site
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