Results:
In 129 of these patients upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, in 3 of them
enteroscopy, in 45 of them lower gastrointestinal endoscopy, in 8 of
them both upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy, in 2 of them
upper, middle and lower gastrointestinal endoscopies were applied and 10
patients didnt performed endoscopy. In 69 of these patients therapeutic
endoscopic treatments were applied. The mean of the length of
hospitalization was 10±13.84 day and 67% of patients had erythrocyte
transfusion with a mean value of 3.5±5.89 units during hospitalization.
The mean of hemoglobin rate was 9.85±1.67 g/dL at the time of discharge
from the hospital. In 92.4 % of the patients (F 91.1%, M 93.2%; upper
GI bleeding 93.9%, middle GI bleeding 100%, lower GI bleeding 86.8%)
anemia was detected at the time of the discharge. In 9.7% of these
patients, iron deficiency treatment were applied. 33% of all 197
patients were evaluated 3 months after discharge from the hospital and
in 80 % of these patients had still ongoing anemia.