[Acute hemorrhagic gastritis as a cause of bleeding from the upper gastrointestinal tract].

In a material of 4560 panendoscopic investigations carried out in an endoscopy laboratory haemorrhages from the upper gastrointestinal tract were found in 201 cases. In 49 cases the cause of blood loss was acute haemorrhagic gastritis. Among them males accounted for 41% (mean age 35.6 years) and females for 59% (mean age 41.8 years). Acute haemorrhagic gastritis was associated with active peptic ulcer (20% of cases), portal hypertension (18%), which were, however, not the cause of haemorrhage. In only 19 cases (39%) acute haemorrhagic gastritis was not associated with any detectable pathological lesions in the upper gastrointestinal tract, adn massive haemorrhage appeared without any preceding symptoms. Considering the total number of bleedings haemorrhagic gastritis was the cause of massive bleeding in 10% of cases.