Survey of Haemorrhagic Erosive Gastritis

Thompson, C. E. R.; Ashurst, Pamela; Bütler, Thomas

doi:10.1136/bmj.3.5613.283

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“…John et al, 1974). In particular, however, there is a 6 % incidence of erosive gastritis reported here in comparison with older series where the incidence was 14 to 21 % (Thompson, Ashurst, and Butler, 1968;Schiller et al, 1970), presumably because this was a diagnosis of exclusion rather than of positive identification until the advent of fibroscopy. Mallory-Weiss tears occurred in 9 % of our patients which is comparable with the findings of other workers of 13 2 % (St. John et al, 1974) and 9% (Katon and Smith, 1973).…”

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A prospective comparative trial between early endoscopy and radiology in acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage.

McGinn¹,

Guyer²,

Wilken³

et al. 1975

Gut

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SUMMARY A prospective comparative trial is reported between the results of early endoscopy and barium meal examinations in 150 patients admitted with acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage. One hundred and thirty-eight patients underwent both investigations within 24 hours of admission. Emergency endoscopy accurately identified the source of haemorrhage in 86% of patients and emergency radiology identified the source in 51 %. Misleading positive reports were given endoscopically in 3 % and by barium meal in 8 %. The identification of the source of haemorrhage was possible in 126 patients (91 %) by the use of both methods. Emergency endoscopy is shown to be superior to emergency barium meal examination, but the examinations are complementary and both should be used for these patients.

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