[Clinical usefulness of Rockall scoring system in patients with bleeding peptic ulcer--comparison with Forrest classification].
OBJECTIVE
The Rockall risk assessment score was developed to predict the risk of rebleeding and death in patients with upper GI hemorrhage. The validity of this score, however, was not established in Korea. We tried to assess the reliability of the Rockall score to predict outcomes in patients with bleeding peptic ulcer.


METHODS
Medical records of 175 patients with benign peptic ulcer bleeding treated in Samsung Medical Center from January 2000 to May 2003 were retrospectively analyzed. They were classified into three groups: no rebleeding rebleeding, and death and mean Rockall score was compared. Forrest classification was also compared with the Rockall score regarding the clinical usefulness of predicting poor outcomes in patients with bleeding peptic ulcer.


RESULTS
One hundred forty five patients did not show rebleeding, with mean Rockall score of 3.5 (SD=1.5). On the other hand, rebleeding occurred in 25 patients and the mean score was 6.4 (SD=1.44). There were 13 deaths with mean score of 7.0 (SD=1.08). The differences between the three groups were significant (p<0.001). In multivariate analysis, Rockall score was a independent risk factor of rebleeding and mortality (odds ratio, OR=2.73 and OR=8.74).


CONCLUSIONS
The Rockall scoring system is useful to predict poor outcome such as rebleeding and death in patients with bleeding peptic ulcer.
Department of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Young Jae
YJ
Oh
Jun Haeng
JH
Lee
Kap Hyun
KH
Kim
Yun Jeong
YJ
Lim
Jung Ho
JH
Park
Hee Jung
HJ
Son
Poong-Lyul
PL
Rhee
Jae J
JJ
Kim
Jong Chul
JC
Rhee
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010438:Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / Q000145:classification* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D012008:Recurrence; D012307:Risk Factors; D015996:Survival Rate