Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) in two non-cirrhotic patients involved large area of stomach: case report and literature review.

Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) is a rare clinical disease which can cause recurrent upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract bleeding. It is responsible for about 4% of non-variceal upper GI haemorrhages. GAVE was also named as watermelon stomach (WS) for its characteristic endoscopic performance. Though the etiology of GAVE is unknown, it received several presumptions according to its histopathological features. Treatments of GAVE can be separated into three categories: pharmacologic, endoluminal, and surgical approaches. Here we will introduce the disease systematically through two cases.