Hemorragia digestiva alta en la cirrosis hepática: hallazgos clínicos y endoscópicos. / [Upper digestive hemorrhage in liver cirrhosis: clinical and endoscopic findings]
Acta gastroenterol. latinoam
; 22(3): 181-6, 1992.
Article
in Spanish
| BINACIS
| ID: bin-37927
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ABSTRACT
There are different opinions in respect to the main sources in upper gastrointestinal bleeding in hepatic cirrhosis. Some authors claim that ruptured esophageal varices are the cause of most of the hemorrhages. Recently, characteristic lesions have been showed in the gastric mucosa in portal hypertension (congestive gastropathy), and many believe that they are frequently the origin of the bleeding. We reviewed the records of 195 episodes of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in cirrhosis, with endoscopy performed within 12 hours of entry, and report here the endoscopic findings and the bleeding sites. We also investigated the relation between the etiology and functional class of the hepatic disease and the bleeding source. We observed variceal hemorrhage in 52.2
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Collection:
National databases
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Argentina
Database:
BINACIS
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Prognostic study
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Acta gastroenterol. latinoam
Year:
1992
Document type:
Article