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What is GAVE? Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia, or GAVE, can be an obscure cause of upper GI bleeding and was de-scribed as early as the 1950s by Rider et al [1]. as ‘fiery red ’ hypertrophic antral mucosa with scat-tered areas of bleeding and blood clots, named veno-capillary ectasia. Later studies detailed the endoscopic appearance of GAVE, coining the term “‘watermelon stomach ” to describe the ery-thematous ectatic vessels in longitudinal stripes along the rugal folds of the antrum [2] or, rarely other parts of the gastric mucosa [3]. There are 2 types of GAVE based on distinctive endoscopic appearances. The classic manifestation consists of this “watermelon ” appearance of multiple flat