VARICOSE VEINS OF THE ESOPHAGUS AND STOMACH - AS A SOURCE OF BLEEDING IN PATIENTS WITH CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER

Abstract

With cirrhosis of the liver, URVPIZh is detected in 50-70% of patients (Cales R., Pascal J.P., 1988). According to S. Sherlock, J. Dooley (1999), this complication develops in 60% of patients with decompensated and 30% compensated cirrhosis of the liver. More detailed data is provided by A. Zaman etal. (1999) - 68% of patients with liver cirrhosis had esophageal varicose veins, and 15% had gastric varicose veins. O.G. Kotenko (1999) reports that the predominance of gastric varicose veins was detected in 57.10% of patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis, while in patients with compensated liver cirrhosis, isolated esophageal varicose veins predominated.