Treatment of portal hypertension related congestive gastropathy bleeding in a gastrointestinal subintensive care unit

Background: The incidence of acute upper gastrointestinal bleedings due to portal hypertension is rapidly increasing. In such cases the acute bleeding originates from congestive gastropathy related gastric erosions. Aim: Retrospective analysis of the clinical outcome in patients with endoscopic findings of congestive gastropathy bleeding (CGB) admitted to our subintensive care unit. Patients and method: During the last 6 years out of the total number of 1682 acute upper GI bleeders 154 (9%) CGB were detected. In the majority of these cases (91%) alcoholic hepatic cirrhosis was proven. Main steps of the patient c…