Korean J Gastrointest Endosc.  2005 Oct;31(4):221-228.

Comparison of Hemostatic Effects between a Combination Therapy Including Endoscopic Injection Therapy and Omeprazole and a Single Intravenous Omeprazole Therapy in Patients with Bleeding Peptic Ulcers

• Lim SH
• Kim N
• Lee KH

Abstract

BACKGROUND/AIMS
This study was performed to test whether there is some difference between combined endoscopic therapy with PPI infusion and intravenous PPI therapy alone.
METHODS
A total of seventy-three high-risk patients with ulcer bleeding and non-bleeding visible vessels or fresh adherent clots resistant to irrigation were randomized to medical therapy [intravenous omeprazole therapy alone: 40 mg IV per day for 3~5 days] or to endoscopic combination therapy [endoscopic epinephrine (1 : 10,000 in normal saline) or ethanol injection followed by intravenous omeprazole infusion].
RESULTS
Patients were similar at study entry. Ulcer bleeding recurred in two patients who received combined endoscopic therapy (2/35, 5.7%) while ulcer bleeding recurred in ten patients who received intravenous omeprazole alone (10/38, 26.3%) (p < 0.05). Two patients (2/35, 5.7%) in the combined therapy group and five patients (5/38, 13.2%) in the omeprazole infusion alone group had surgery for intractable bleeding (p=0.281). One patient in each group died within the hospital stays (p=0.953).
CONCLUSIONS
The combination of endoscopic injection therapy with omeprazole infusion is superior to omeprazole infusion alone for preventing recurrent bleeding from ulcers with nonbleeding visible vessels or adherent clots.

Keyword

Omeprazole; Peptic ulcer bleeding; Endoscopic injection therapy

MeSH Terms

Epinephrine
Ethanol
Hemorrhage*
Humans
Length of Stay
Omeprazole*
Peptic Ulcer*
Ulcer
Epinephrine
Ethanol
Omeprazole