Causes and risk factors for upper digestive hemorrhage
- Author:
Huy Van Tran
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
upper digestive hemorrhage
- MeSH:
Hemorrhage;
Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2002;435(11):56-59
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Studying on 60 patients with upper digestive hemorrhage to determine the causes of disease showed that duodenal ulceration (26.7%), peptic ulceration (21.7%), gastritis (11.9%), and gastroduodenal ulceration (8.3%). Mallory - Weiss (8.3%), esophageal venous rupture (8.3%) peptic cancer (6.6%), pancreatic head cancer compressing the O2 duodenum (1.6%), datric polyps (1.6%) and unidentified cause (5%).
