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1Department of Emergency, Ganzhou People's Hospital, Ganzhou, Jiangxi 341000, China.
Objective:
To improve the safety and reliability of gastric ulcer treatment, the emergence of digestive endoscopy technology in recent years has become a conventional method for the diagnosis of peptic ulcer bleeding. Endoscopic characteristics can judge the severity of patients more accurately and comprehensively, provide a basis for follow-up treatment, and judge the prognosis.
Methods:
298 patients with a suspected gastric ulcer who underwent laryngeal gastroduodenal endoscopy and confirmed gastroduodenal ulcer in our hospital in recent half a year were randomly selected. Olympus cv-170 electronic gastroscope machine was used to carry out gastroscopy for patients with gastric ulcers, analyze, and judge the number of bleeding cases in different stages of treatment, such as lesion type, lesion location, patient age, and gender. The statistics of bleeding cycle and bleeding volume, prognosis recovery, and the correlation of different risk levels were analyzed.
Results:
After examination and diagnosis, the patients were followed up for one year. According to the number of bleeding cases, bleeding cycle, and bleeding volume of patients with different ulcer locations in the acute stage, healing stage, and scar stage, the distribution of bleeding cases of different ulcer locations in different stages was roughly the same, and there was no significant difference. The proportion of bleeding cases in the acute stage was the highest, while the proportion in the healing stage was the lowest. The number of bleeding cases, bleeding cycle, bleeding volume, and related symptoms in patients with gastric ulcers during the treatment were significantly correlated with those in the acute stage, healing stage, and scar stage. There was no significant difference in the distribution of bleeding in one year among different stages of ulcer in the same age group, however, the bleeding in one year would be more serious with the increase of age in different age groups. Gender differences have a great impact on the bleeding of the ulcer within one year. It usually shows that the bleeding of ulcers in males is more serious than that in females.
Conclusion:
The location and pathological development of gastric ulcers can be found in time through gastroscopy, and the status of gastroscopy can be analyzed. Most gastric ulcers are acute bleeding. The amount of bleeding has little correlation with the stage of gastric ulcer, and it is related to the location of bleeding. The older the age, the greater the amount of bleeding, and the amount of bleeding in men is greater than that in women. In the treatment of gastric ulcers, gastroscopy, as a doctor's examination and treatment method, effectively improves the safety and reliability of clinical treatment of gastric ulcer bleeding and reduces the adverse risk.
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