[Features of the upper gastrointestinal tract mucous membrane state in patients with atherosclerosis of the mesenteric arteries].

Aim: To evaluate the clinical and endoscopic features of diseases of the upper gastrointestinal tract (GIT) in patients with atherosclerosis of the mesenteric arteries (MA).

Materials And Methods: The study included 48 patients with atherosclerosis of MA and 43 patients without atherosclerosis of MA, who were hospitalized in the department of vascular surgery of the Chelyabinsk Regional Clinical Hospital in the period from 2019 to 2021. All patients underwent multispiral computed tomoangiography of the visceral and lower limb arteries, esophagogastroduodenoscopy.

Prognosis factors of survival in patients with liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension.

Aim: To study prognostic factors for survival in patients of liver cirrhosis (LC) with portal hypertension (PG).

Materials And Methods: 155 patients (women - 49.4%, men - 50.

[VENOUS ECTASIA OF GASTRIC ANTRUM].

Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) is an uncommon but often severe cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. GAVE may be asymptomatic or accompanied by clinical anemia or overt gastrointestinal bleeding. The diagnosis is mainly based on pathognomonic endoscopic pattern, defined as «watermelon stomach», located in antrum.