. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 18.

Published in final edited form as: Dig Dis Sci. 2016 Jun 10;61(9):2732–2740. doi: 10.1007/s10620-016-4198-y

Table 4.

Manifestations of upper GI tract hemorrhage and history of isolated hematochezia in cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic patients

History of manifestation	All patients N = 207	Cirrhotics N = 83	Non-cirrhotics N = 124	P value
Melena in the last 30 days	107 (51.7)	39 (46.9)	68 (54.8)	0.2596
Hematemesis in the last 30 days	42 (20.3)	19 (22.9)	23 (18.5)	0.4863
Positive nasogastric aspirate	21 (10.1)	11 (13.2)	10 (8.1)	0.2523
Witnessed hematemesis or positive nasogastric aspirate	54 (26.1)	26 (31.3)	28 (22.6)	0.1989
Isolated hematochezia	76 (36.7)	30 (36.1)	47 (37.9)	0.7716

Values are numbers (%) of observations