title: [Gastrointestinal hemorrhage in the internal medicine cases of a district hospital. Retrospective study from the years 1965-1974].
abstract: In the period between 1965-1974 564 patients with gastrointestinal hemorrhages were admitted in the medical clinic of the District Hospital St. Georg Leipzig. Of them 112 patients (20%) were at once or after failure of a conservative therapy admitted in the surgical clinic for operation. 82 patients died (18%) of the conservatively treated patients). The most frequent sources of haemorrhage duodenal ulcers with 32%, ventricular ulcers with 25% and carcinomas of the stomach with 19%. In 13% of the patients haemorrhages induced by drugs could be assumed. In 13% the case were recidivation haemorrhages. Severe gastrointestinal haemorrhages were observed only in 4% of the patients and consequently were less important in our patients. A further improvement of the diagnostic exactness is possible by perfection of the early diagnosis (emergency gastroscopy and angiography), which may be important with regard to a surgical intervention.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005773:Gastroscopy; D005859:Germany, East; D006753:Hospital Records; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010438:Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / Q000453:epidemiology; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Gastrointestinale Blutungen im internistischen Krankengut eines Bezirkskrankrankenhauses Eine retrospektive Studie aus den Jahren 1965-1974