From November 1997 to March 1998, 30 patients with ruptured oesophageal varices-caused gastrointestinal hemorrhage underwent the endoscopic variceal ligation by rubber ring. Age of patients ranged from 20 to 78 years. Male to female ratio is 2 to 1. Endoscopic imaging showed grade III of oesophageal varices in 29 patients, spread or spurt bleeding in 21 patients, point bleeding in 9 patients. Emergency hemostatic was performed successfully in 90.47% of the patients. 65.5% of the patients have complete elimination of oesophageal varices within 30 days and by 3 months after procedure, this rate risen to 82.75%. Adverse events and complications of oesophageal variceal ligation were temporary and resolved within some days. The common events were involved in oesopharyngeal region, such as sore throat, bleeding and oesophageal ulcer after the ligation.
Endoscopes ; Varicose Veins ; Ligation

A retrospective study on 146 cases of upper digestive bleeding clinically and endoscopic diagnosed within the first 24 hours during 1995-1999, who received the endoscopic emegency injection for bleeding stop in the gastroduodenal ulceration has shown that the primary rate of bleeding stop in the ulceration focuses was 86.30%. The method showed inexpensive, easy to implement which helped early and precisely diagnosing the lesions with continuous bleeding and risks of relapsed bleeding and remove the patients from the emegency condition to a stable condition. The method can be applied widly in the whole country.
Peptic Ulcer ; Endoscopy ; Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage

Background: Ovarian stimulation is an important process in IVF. Objectives:To assess the efficacy of low dose GnRH agonist depot in combination with recombinant FSH for ovarian stimulation in IVF and evaluate the clinical pregnancy rate of this protocol. Subject and method: A prospective study recruited 60 patients undergoing IVF. The patients was injected intramuscularly with a single dose of diphereline of 1.25 mg on cycle day 21-23. Then recombinant FSH was given subcutaneously on day 3. hCG was injected intramuscularly when at least one follicle reached 18 mm in diameter. Oocytes retrieval in 36 hours and embryo 2 transfer on day after oocytes retrieval. Results: Duration of stimulation was 10.8 \xb1 0.9, average number of oocytes was 3.3 \xb1 4.7, average number of embryos was 6.5 \xb1 4.1, clinical pregnancy rate was 41.7%. Ovarian hyperstimulation rate was 5%, frozen embryo rate was 40 %. Conclusions: The use of low dose GnRH agonist depot in combination with recombinant ISH is effective for ovarian stimulation in IVF.
In vitro Fertilization (IVF) ; Ovarian stimulation ; Oocytes retrieval ; Embryo transfer ; GnRH agonist