Results:
In 129 of these patients upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, in 3 of them enteroscopy, in 45 of them lower gastrointestinal endoscopy, in 8 of them both upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy, in 2 of them upper, middle and lower gastrointestinal endoscopies were applied and 10 patients didnt performed endoscopy. In 69 of these patients therapeutic endoscopic treatments were applied. The mean of the length of hospitalization was 10±13.84 day and 67% of patients had erythrocyte transfusion with a mean value of 3.5±5.89 units during hospitalization. The mean of hemoglobin rate was 9.85±1.67 g/dL at the time of discharge from the hospital. In 92.4 % of the patients (F 91.1%, M 93.2%; upper GI bleeding 93.9%, middle GI bleeding 100%, lower GI bleeding 86.8%) anemia was detected at the time of the discharge. In 9.7% of these patients, iron deficiency treatment were applied. 33% of all 197 patients were evaluated 3 months after discharge from the hospital and in 80 % of these patients had still ongoing anemia.