Emergency endoscopy in patients with hereditary hemophilia
Schneider, W.; Möller, T.; Hanke, P.; Weller, P.
Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete 36(19): 710-711
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-2542 PMID: 6975541 Document Number: 180117
Haemorrhages from the upper gastrointestinal tract are a particularly threatening complication for patients with hereditary haemorrhagic diathesis. Though in the individual case under conservative therapy a temporizing attitude is possible, the source of the haemorrhage should be localized. When the peculiarities of this group of patients are taken into consideration the emergency endoscopy does not evoke a new danger of bleeding, on the contrary it is a decisive prerequisite for the individual therapy according to indication.