Emergency treatment of hemorrhagic gastric and duodenal ulcer.

Hemorrhage is one of the most common serious complication of gastric and duodenal ulcer even so, the knowledge and the usage of new anti-ulcer drugs (H2-receptor antagonists and inhibitors of the proton-pump enzyme such as omeprazole) and the success of therapy of Helicobacter pylori infection of gastric and duodenal mucosa, have changed the role of surgical treatment of ulcer disease. Our aim is to describe the evaluation of bleeding peptic ulcer, the indications for surgical treatment and the type of operative procedure or method that it has to be performed.