BLEEDING GASTRIC ULCER: A PROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF REBLEEDING AND MORTALITY

Clinical laboratory and endoscopic data were collected prospectively in 268 patients with bleeding gastric ulcer who were admitted between September 1985 and November 1987. There were 22 deaths, giving a hospital mortality rate of 8.2%. Surgery was undertaken in 68 patients (25.4%) with a mortality rate of 17.6% (11.8% at 30 days). There was one fatality in 104 (1.0%) patients less than or equal to 60 years compared with 21 deaths (12.8%) in...