Fig. 1.

Prognosis of 428 patients who underwent endoscopic hemostasis. Process of patients and procedures after initial endoscopic hemostasis. ^a)Three patients underwent emergency surgery because bleeding from vessels associated with upper gastrointestinal did not stop after an initial endoscopic hemostatic procedure. ^b)Two patients died of cerebral infarction before a scheduled or emergency second-look endoscopy. ^c)Sixty-nine of 423 patients (16.3%) had Ia, Ib, IIa, or IIb vessels that were considered intractable to the initial endoscopic hemostatic procedure at a scheduled or emergency second-look endoscopy, and they required second endoscopic hemostasis. ^d)Three hundred fifty-four of 423 patients (83.7%) with Forrest class IIc or III at a scheduled or emergency second-look endoscopy had durable hemostasis. Initial endoscopic hemostatic procedure was considered successful for these patients.