title: [Therapeutic modalities in upper gastrointestinal tract hemorrhage].
abstract: During the observed 5 year period 428 patients were hospitalized because of upper digestive tract hemorrhages. The commonest cause of hemorrhage was the peptic ulcer (46.5%). The bleeding duodenal ulcer occurs more often than the stomach ulcer (55.2% to 44.8%). These patients are usually of older age (more than 50% of men and 46% women in whom duodenal ulcer bleeding occurs are older than 60 years of age). In about half of ulcers (40%) acute bleeding occurs during the urgent endoscopic procedure. Oozing type of bleeding occurs most frequently (82.5%), while the most serious type of bleeding, aortic pulse, is much less frequent (7%). Fibrinous coagulum recidives in bleeding in about one fifth of cases. Active pulse bleeding is the cause of surgery in 66.7% as well as two thirds (75%) of recidivant bleedings. More than 80% of patients in whom gastroduodenal bleeding occurs are being conservatively treated and this percentage may be taken as an adequate choice of the therapy modality.
authors.affiliation: Klinika za hirurgiju, Klinicko-bolnicki centar, Dr Dragisa Misovic, Beograd.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Radovanović
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kalaba
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stojanović
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010438:Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / Q000628:therapy; D013272:Stomach Diseases / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: Terapijski modaliteti lecenja krvarenja iz gornjih partija gastrointestinalnog trakta.