[Upper digestive hemorrhages. Our experience with 236 treated cases]

Abstract

The results obtained in reviewing series of 236 patients suffering from upper digestive haemorrhages and observed in a close to 10 years period are reported. Some data regarding the age and sex of patients, the frequency of the condition at certain periods of the year and the type of lesion that led to bleeding are reviewed and results compared with those reported by other workers. In conclusion, stress is laid on the importance of trunk vagotomy associated with pyloroplasty as operations of choice in the surgical treatment of gastroduodenal ulcer induced haemorrhage which were, in the personal series also, the most frequently observed conditions.