Abstract

Acute Gastrointestinal bleeding–Massive acute bleeding from gastrointestinal section is one of the most frequent forms of acute abdomen. The mortality degree in emergency surgery is about 10 %. It’s very difficult to identify the place of bleeding and etiology. Purpose: The important purpose of this research is to present the cases of acute gastrointestinal bleeding from the patients which were monitored and treated at The University Clinical Center of Kosova–Emergency Center in Pristina. Material and methods: These inquests included 137 patients with acute gastrointestinal bleeding who were treated in emergency center of The University Clinical Center in Pristina for the period from January 2005 until December 2006. Results and discussion: From 137 patients with acute gastrointestinal bleeding 41% or 29% was female and 96% or 70.1 % male. Following the sex we gained a high significant difference of statistics (p

Key words: Acute Gastrointestinal bleeding, Emergency Centre, University Clinical Center of Kosova.