title: Treatment results of non-varicose bleeding from upper gastrointestinal tract.
abstract: Treatment results of non-varicose bleeding from upper gastrointestinal tract are changing by improved endoscopic methods and introduction of new drugs in treatment.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Objective of this work was to compare the results in treatment of patients with non-varicose bleeding from upper gastrointestinal tract in two different 5-years periods.
  
  
  METHODS
  We hospitalised 229 patients with non-varicose bleeding from upper gastrointestinal tract at the Department of Surgery in Faculty Hospital of Martin in the period 1992-1996. (161 men and 68 women, average age 56.7, patients up to 60 were 42.4%). 203 patients were hospitalised in the years 2003-2008 (146 men and 57 women, average age 61.5, patients up to 60 were 54%).
  
  
  METHODS
  We compared both groups by retrospective analysis and we evaluated differences by using statistical methods (nonparametric test of independence of the qualitative data).
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was only minimal difference in primary conservative and endoscopic haemostasis in both groups. Relaps of bleeding was the same in both groups. Definitive conservative and endoscopic haemostasis was higher by 3.2% in the period 2003-2008 and number of urgent operations decreased by 5.1%. Differences in total mortality were minimal between both groups but postoperative mortality was higher by 5.9% in the years 2003-2008.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Number of urgent operations decreased due to improved results in definitive conservative and endoscopic haemostasis in the treatment of non-varicose bleeding from upper gastroinestinal tract. There was no significant change in the relaps of bleeding. There were only minimal changes in total mortality between both groups, but postoperative mortality increased in the second period (Tab. 8, Ref. 35).
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, UK JLF a UNM, Martin, Slovakia. bll@fmed.uniba.sk
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mikolajcik
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sutiak
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Smolar
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zelenak
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kycina
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Polacek
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Janik
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Danova
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mistuna
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D016558:Hemostasis, Endoscopic; D006488:Hemostasis, Surgical; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged