Octreotide or conventional therapy for variceal haemorrhage

Abstract

To study whether octreotide is more effective than conventional conservative management for treating bleeding oesophageal varices and to know whether ocreotide has any beneficial effect on survivial patients suspected of bleeding from oesophageal varices and having cirrhosis of the liver patients admitted in the department of medicine. Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar were studied. Withing the limited power of this study we were unable to show a clinical benefit of octreotide in the emergency treatment of bleeding oesophageal varices. moreover, the mortality rate was recorded to the higher in the octreotide group.