[Results of the treatment of bleeding gastroduodenal ulcer]

Treatment was applied to 243 patients for bleeding gastro-duodenal ulcer, over a period of ten years. In recent years, conventional radiographic diagnosis has been replaced by emergency gastroscopy. Particular importance is attributed to surgical therapy. Prognosis of bleeding ulcer is substantively affected by intensity of bleeding, age of patient, and multi-morbidity. Therapeutic early elective surgery has so far yielded the best results. The overall lethality of 20.5 per cent included 19.2 per cent after conservative therapy and 21.9 per cent following surgical treatment.