A RARE CASE PRESENTATION OF LOWER GI BLEED: A CASE REPORT

Abdominal tuberculosis is the sixth most common type of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Abdominal tuberculosis can result from swallowing of infected sputum, ingestion of contaminated food, hematogenous spread, and direct extension from adjacent organs. Though lower GI bleed is possible in tuberculosis, it accounts a very low percentage compared to the other causes of lower GI bleed and the most common site being ileoceacal junction. Although minor bleeding has been described fairly massive hematochezia necessitating blood transfusion, such as in this case, is highly unusual. Therefore, the clinician must think of TB with history of exposure and tissue diagnosis must be done to establish diagnosis or exclude this curable disease