[Endoscopic findings in upper gastrointestinal tract in patients with liver cirrhosis]

Abstract

151 patients suffering from the cirrhosis of the liver underwent a prospective endoscopic examination of the upper digestive tract. The most frequent diagnoses in the group with the cirrhosis of the liver included oesophagus varices (64.9%), portal hypertension gastropathy (45.7%) and the peptic ulcer of the gastroduodenum (25.8%). A normal diagnosis in the endoscopy of the upper digestive tract was found only in 8.6%. Other diagnoses comprised reflux oesophagitis (13.2%), diaphragm hiatus hernia (12.6 %), duodenogastric reflux (8.6 %), gastric antrum erosion (4.6 %), aphthic gastropathy (3.3 %), rhagades of the cardium (2%), gastric polyp (1.3%), mycotic oesophagitis, gastric carcinoma, oesophagus carcinoma and oesophagus achalasy (0.7% each). Further on the study discusses possible causes of the high incidence of peptic ulcers in the patients with the cirrhosis of the liver. All findings are correlated with literary data.