Médecine et Santé Tropicales
MENUHospital 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
Conclusion
1 Service d’hépato-gastro-entérologie, CHU Campus de Lomé, Lomé, Togo
2 Service de médecine interne, CHU Sylvanus-Olympio, Lomé, Togo
* Correspondance
- Key words: mortality, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, portal hypertension, variceal bleeding, Togo
- DOI : 10.1684/mst.2014.0372
- Page(s) : 388-91
- Published in: 2014
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.