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"Haematemesis means vomiting blood, and indicates upper gastrointestinal bleeding, often due to peptic ulcer, erosiions, variceal bleeding or MalloryWeiss tears. Mortality varies depending on cause, age and comorbidities and is generally between 2 and 10% 1,2,4. Please see the main article on upper gastrointestinal bleeding for more detail."

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"Haematemesis means vomiting blood, and indicates upper gastrointestinal bleeding, often due to peptic ulcer, erosiions, variceal bleeding or Mallory–Weiss tears. Mortality varies depending on cause, age and comorbidities and is generally between 2 and 10% 1,2,4. Please see the main article on upper gastrointestinal bleeding for more detail."

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