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[Treatment with somatostatin of variceal digestive hemorrhage: a one-year prospective]
L Yuguero del Moral1, A J López Morante, J L Martín Lorente
1Sección de Aparato Digestivo, Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital General Yagüe, Burgos.
Revista Espanola De Enfermedades Digestivas
|October 1, 1990
Abstract:
Twenty-two patients with variceal bleeding were treated with somatostatin, receiving a bolus of 250 mcg followed by an infusion at a rate of 250 mcg/hour. Bleeding stopped in sixteen patients (72.7%). Definitive control was attained in 13 patients (59.2%). Mortality was 31.8%. Somatostatin was not effective in patients with large varices, jet bleeding and hepatic insufficiency. Only minor side effects were recorded in four patients (18.2%).