[Endoscopic hemostatic injection treatment of bleeding gastroduodenal ulcer]

Out of 88 patients suffering from bleeding gastroduodenal ulcer 36 with active bleeding or stigmata of recent hemorrhage and shock underwent endoscopic hemostatic injection treatment. There were three rebleedings, two of them from the same bleeding source (chronic duodenal ulcer). These two patients underwent emergency surgery without postoperative complications. A third patient had been operated for perforating gastric ulcer and died from pulmonary embolism. Injection treatment is considered the hemostatic technique of choice in patients with bleeding peptic ulcer.