Tissue solidification in coping with digestive tract bleeding

Abstract

Tatsuka et al, reported a local injection of 95% ethanol as a new endoscopical treatment of gastric protuberant lesions. In performing this method, the present authors discovered that 99.5% ethanol injection has an excellent hemostatic effect. The authors injected 99.5% ethanol into the cut-end of the stalk of 7 massive hemorrhaged cases encountered while performing double snare polypectomy. In all cases, the hemorrhage stopped within 5 to 15 minutes. In 9 patients with hemorrhagic gastric or duodenal ulcer who were judged at emergency endoscopical examination as needing some hemostatic treatment, an injection of 99.5% ethanol into the bleeding site achieved a satisfactory hemostasis in all of them. © 1981, Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society. All rights reserved.