A New Scoring System to Predict Poor Clinical Outcomes in Acute Nonvariceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Patients with High-Risk Stigmata

Table 1

The characteristics of acute nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding patients enrolled.

	Number of patients
Clinical characteristics
Age: median(IQR)^a	58 (42, 66)
Gender
Male	173
Female	36
UGIB symptom(s)^b
Melena	181
Hematemesis	107
Syncope	23
Outcomes
Rebleeding	38
Blood transfusion	44
Further intervention	15
Mortality	9
Endoscopic characteristics
Manifestation
Gastric ulcer	57
Duodenal ulcer	101
Anastamotic ulcer	3
Esophageal ulcer	3
Gastritis	5
Duodenitis	10
Anastamotic bleeding	10
Mallory-Weiss	16
Gastric vascular ectasia	1
Malignancy	3
Endoscopic hemostasis
Monotherapy	172
Multiple therapies combined	37

^aIQR: interquartile range. ^bSome patients presented with more than one symptom.