[Value of the emergency therapeutic endoscopy in gastrointestinal hemorrhage]

The experience in therapeutic digestive endoscopy is presented using injection technique with adrenalin-polidocanol of gastrointestinal hemorrhage lesions. One hundred and twenty nine patients were treated endoscopically; the medium age was 60 years; in almost 80% of the cases, peptic ulcer disease were found. The effectiveness was 91.4% when one session procedure was used and in some cases two sessions were applied, giving a final total arrest of hemorrhage of 95.3%. The total mortality still remain high (16.3%) even without bleeding, due to coexisting poor general conditions of the patients. The technique of endoscopic injection is reviewed and the final results of our work are presented.