[Emergency endoscopy in patients with hereditary hemophilia]

Haemorrhages from the upper gastrointestinal tract are a particularly threatening complication for patients with hereditary haemorrhagic diathesis. Though in the individual case under conservative therapy a temporizing attitude is possible, the source of the haemorrhage should be localized. When the peculiarities of this group of patients are taken into consideration the emergency endoscopy does not evoke a new danger of bleeding, on the contrary it is a decisive prerequisite for the individual therapy according to indication.