Abstract: Objective To observe the clinical effect of somatostatin and somatostatin combined with endoscope
in treatment of liver cirrhosis patients with esophageal gastric varices bleeding (EGVB). Methods Total of 167
liver cirrhosis patients with EGVB from January 2014 to December 2014 in Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital
Medical University were selected. The control group (21 cases) were treated with somatostatin and the treatment
group (146 cases) were treated with somatostatin combined with endoscopic lauromacrogol + tissue adhesive.
Both groups were also given liver protection drugs, diuresis and propranolol. The rates of emergency hemostasis,
varicose vein disappearance and mortality after following-up 1 week, 1 month and 3 months were observed.
Results The rates of emergency hemostasis in control group and treatment group were 90.5% (19/21) and 99.3%
(145/146), respectively, and the difference was statistically significant (χ 2 = 4.065, P = 0.042). After following-
up for 1 week, 1 month and 3 months, the rebleeding rate was 9.5% (2/21), 23.8% (5/21) and 42.9% (9/21) in
control group and 0.7% (1/146), 2.1% (3/146) and 3.4% (5/146) in treatment group, respectively, the differences
were statistically significant (χ 2 = 4.065, 14.579, 32.212; P = 0.042, 0.000, 0.000). After following-up for 3
months, the rate of varicose veins disappeared was 0% (0/21) in control group and 21.2% (31/146) in treatment
group, the difference was statistically significant (χ 2 = 4.161, P = 0.041). The mortality rate was 9.5% (2/21) in
control group and 0% (1/146) in treatment group, the difference was statistically significant (χ 2 = 5.894, P = 0.015).
Conclusions Somatostatin combined with endoscope in treatment of liver cirrhosis patients with EGVB is a fast, safe and effective method, which can reduce the varicosed vein disappearance rate and the mortality rate
significantly.
|