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Incidence and significance of haematemesis in cirrhosis


H. Moffat
M. Gelfand

Abstract

A retrospective study of 228 patients with cirrhosis admitted to Harare Hospital over a 3-year period was carried out to determine the incidence of haematemesis, and to assess the prognosis of patients with gastrointestinal haemorrhage as compared with those where liver failure had progressed to the extent that they had developed encephalopathy and coma. It was found that more patients fell into the latter group (50 cases) than into the group with haematemesis (with or without encephalopathy) (45 cases), but there was no significant difference in the mortality rate of the groups.

S. Afr. Med. J., 48, 1155 (1974).

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