Hemorragia digestiva alta en pacientes con enfermedad ulcero péptica en mayores de 30 años en el Hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo en el periodo 2019.

Abstract

Peptic ulcer is defined as loss of substance from the mucosa and the rest of the layers of the gastric and / or duodenal wall. The main complication of peptic ulcer is upper gastrointestinal bleeding. In the present study, a total of 351 patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding were analyzed; obtaining as a result a distribution according to sex, males of 63.25%, while the female sex represented 36.75%. The mean age of the patients was 67 years. The main risk factor associated with peptic ulcer found in the present investigation was polypharmacy. The most frequent anatomical site of presentation of the ulcer was the pyloric antrum; and the most frequent associated pathologies detected at endoscopy were atrophic gastropathy and erosive gastritis.