[Acute upper gastrointestinal tract haemorrhage: tactics and treatment].

Haemorrhage due to upper digestive tract diseases is one of the major complications and is relatively common. The cause for haemorrhage depend on the main disease and in many cases has complicated mechanism. The frequency is 100 cases over 100 000 people. There is no proven alternative to the surgical treatment. The issue with second time haemorrhage is controversial. The goal of every surgeon, when dealing with haemorrhage from upper digestive tract, especially with patient with bleeding ulcer, is surgical treatment, when conservative and endoscope treatment have failed. Every patient with bleeding stomach or duodenal ulcer should undergo FGS for Forrest haemorrhage demonstration, endoscope haemostasis and HP examination. Eradication should be applied to every HP positive patient for haemorrhage prevention.