Open AccessPredictors of In-hospital Mortality Among Patients Presenting with Variceal Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Author(s) -
Arun Kumar,
Raminderpal Singh Sibia
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the saudi journal of gastroenterology/saudi journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-4049
pISSN - 1319-3767
DOI - 10.4103/1319-3767.151226
Subject(s) - medicine , cirrhosis , gastrointestinal bleeding , gastroenterology , portal hypertension , upper gastrointestinal bleeding , varices , mortality rate , medical record , portal venous pressure , retrospective cohort study , bilirubin , gastric varices , logistic regression , endoscopy
The recent years have witnessed an increase in number of people harboring chronic liver diseases. Gastroesophageal variceal bleeding occurs in 30% of patients with cirrhosis, and accounts for 80%-90% of bleeding episodes. We aimed to assess the in-hospital mortality rate among subjects presenting with variceal gastrointestinal bleeding and (2) to investigate the predictors of mortality rate among subjects presenting with variceal gastrointestinal bleeding.