DIEULAFOY’S ULCER: RARE CAUSE OF UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING. OUR EXPERIENCE
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Objective: the authors report their experience about the endoscopic treatment of upper gastrointestinal bleeding from Dieulatoy’s ulcer (non variceal bleeding).
Design: report of 5 cases; evaluation of mortality and effectiveness of the treatment.
Setting: Operative Unit of General and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical, Anatomical and Oncological Disciplines. Policlinico, University of Palermo.
Interventions: EGDS + sclerotherapy (emergency room) in all 5 patients.
Results: 80% successful (stop bleeding).
Conclusions: endoscopic sclerotherapy is choice treatment of upper gastrointestinal bleeding from Dieulafoy’s ulcer, only in well experienced teams and rapidly.
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Sciumè, C., et al. “DIEULAFOY’S ULCER: RARE CAUSE OF UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING. OUR EXPERIENCE”. Annali Italiani Di Chirurgia, vol. 72, no. 2, Mar. 2001, pp. 233-7, https://annaliitalianidichirurgia.it/index.php/aic/article/view/522.
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