Clinical evaluation of endoscopic hemostasis for bleeding gastric and duodenal ulcers

The present study shows the excellent efficacy of endoscopic hemostatic therapy by ethanol injection. At the same time, the results emphasize the significant efficacy of intensive pharmaceutical treatment for peptic ulcer patients with clinical symptoms of hematemesis and/or melena. Concerning endoscopic hemostatic therapy, we prefer ethanol injection therapy to most other methods, such as laser irradiation, microtase or heat probe, because the ethanol injection method is the most simple, inexpensive, safe, technically easy, can be performed any time and in any place, and is more effective than other methods. In rare cases where direct ethanol injection into the exposed blood vessels is difficult, we do not hesitate to select other contact methods such as heat probe or microtase.