Principles of treating stomach and duodenal ulcers complicated by hemorrhage

: Ulcerative gastroduodenal bleedings have remained one of the most complicated problems of emergency abdominal surgery up to the present. According to the literature, they make up approximately one half of all gastroduodenal bleedings and are accompanied by high lethality--from 10 to 30%. At that the highest percentage of lethality falls at elderly and old patients.