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Hospital mortality associated with upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage due to ruptured esophageal varices at the Lomé Campus Hospital in Togo Volume 24, issue 4, October-November-December 2014

Authors
1 Service d’hépato-gastro-entérologie, CHU Campus de Lomé, Lomé, Togo
2 Service de médecine interne, CHU Sylvanus-Olympio, Lomé, Togo
* Correspondance

Conclusion

the mortality rate among patients with upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage linked to variceal bleeding is high in our unit. The prevention of hepatitis virus B is important because it is the main cause of chronic liver disease causing portal hypertension in our department.