Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in operated stomach: Outcome of 105 cases

Table 3 Outcome of patients recruited in the study

	Patients withsurgery in the pasttotal n = 105benign ulcersn = 73	Patients withoutsurgery in the pasttotal n = 608benign ulcersn = 360	P
Blood transfusions	3.3±4.0	1.5±1.7	0.0001
Hospital d	8.57±4	6.86±4.75	0.001
Re-bleeding	13/105	66/608	NS
Emergency surgery (overall), n (%)	9/105 (8.6)	23/608 (3.8)	0.028
Emergency surgery, n (%)	9/73 (12.3)	19/360 (5.3)	0.025
(peptic ulcers)
Duodenal ulcers	1	11
Gastric ulcers	–	7
Marginal ulcers	7	–
Dieulafoy’s ulcers	1		1
Mortality (overall), n (%)	4/105 (3.8)	19/608 (3.1)	NS
Post-surgical mortality, n (%)	2/9 (22.2)	6/23 (26)	NS