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Table 5 Mortality, rebleeding, blood transfusion requirement, and length of hospital stay for endoscopic and non-endoscopic therapy

From: Management of overt upper gastrointestinal bleeding in a low resource setting: a real world report from Nigeria

 

Endoscopic therapy

Non endoscopic therapy

p

Varices

36

16

 

 Mortality in six months

2

8

<0.001

 Rebleeding

5

12

<0.001

 Blood transfusion units Mean ± SD

3.0 ± 3.6

4.7 ± 5.7

0.031

 Hospital stay (in days) Mean ± SD

5.0 ± 1.6

9.2 ± 5.4

<0.001

Duodenal ulcer

42

13

 

 Rebleeding

0

5

<0.001

 Blood transfusion units Mean ± SD

2.8 ± 3.4

3.1 ± 3.1

0.01

 Hospital stay (in days) Mean ± SD

3.7 ± 2.0

9.4 ± 4.9

<0.001