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Alarm Symptom

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Alarm Symptom
Any of a number of symptoms—e.g., haematuria, dysphagia, haemoptysis, rectal bleeding—which would cause a reasonable physician to investigate further until a diagnosis (usually of cancer) or a satisfactory explanation has been obtained, including that of serious non-malignant conditions
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Colonoscopy should only be undertaken if alarm symptoms are present or if iron deficiency persists despite oral iron therapy and correction of reversible causes (e.
Iron deficiency is one of the commonest causes of anaemia in adults by Barrow, Peter H. / CME: Your SA Journal of CPD
19) The small number of older patients who were found to have esophageal cancer had no higher prevalence of alarm symptoms than other subjects in this study.
Reflux, dyspepsia, and disorders of the foregut by Kelly, Ciaran P. / Southern Medical Journal
In November 2005, the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) updated its position statement on the evaluation of dyspepsia to recommend that patients 55 years of age or younger without alarm symptoms should be tested using a test of active infection, such as the 13C-urea breath test(2).
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