A pharmacological alternative for treatment of haemorrhage from a hiatus hernia gastric ulcer.

Haematemesis in the elderly patient is a life-threatening condition. When the degree of blood loss is severe enough to warrant intervention by surgery or endoscopic means, the risk is even greater. We describe such a case, where treatment was further complicated as the bleeding point was in a hiatus hernia. The bleeding was successfully controlled by non-invasive means using an infusion of a somatostatin analogue.