A novel strategy of combining abdominal surgery and endoscopy for the quick hemostasis of acute duodenal ulcer bleeding: a case report

Uncontrolled ulcer bleeding of duodenal ulcer (DU) after endoscopic therapy often needs surgery. At present, cutting the bottom of the ulcer with ligation and performing its excision-lesion are the common ways to achieve immediate efficacy in stopping bleeding. For the problem of its great trauma, we seek an easy and useful technical method to reach the same therapeutic effect to stop acute bleeding.

We determined the distribution of the lesion and its innervated blood vessels under the guidance of the endoscopy and then performed suture and hemostasis on the external surface of the stomach and duodenum.

An immediate efficacy in stopping bleeding was shown and the hemoglobin (Hb) level returned to normal after operation with no recurrence of bleeding.

We created a successful and novel strategy for laparotomy-endoscopic assisted suture for DU emergency hemostasis without duodenectomy.