[Clinical symptoms of erosive and ulcerous lesions of gastroduodenal zone in patients with unstable ischemic heart disease and the significance of endoscopy in diagnosis].

We studied 103 patients with unstable ischemic heart disease and clinical signs of gastroduodenal injury. Among them 62 (60.2%) patients had moderate gastric dyspepsia and abdominal pain during first 1-5 days of hospitalization. In 17 (16.5%) cases these clinical symptoms were accompanied with symptoms of gastroduodenal hemorrhage. Twenty four patients (23.3%) with history of ulcer disease or chronic gastritis, were asymptomatic. In 96 (93.2%) patients endoscopy performed mainly on days 20-24 of hospital stay detected gastroduodenal erosions and ulcers: acute ulcers were found in 19.4, acute erosions - in 40.8, exacerbations of peptic ulcer - in 33.0% of patients. Clinical symptoms of gastroduodenal ulcers and erosions often did not reflect character, severity and dynamics of pathological process. Therefore gastro- duodenoscopy had decisive importance for diagnosis and assessment of effect of treatment. Endoscopy should be carried out with due consideration of concomitant coronary pathology.