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All patients underwent emergency endoscopy during admission. The mean time from presentation to endoscopy was 29 ± 26 h (2–96 h). Endoscopy was conducted within 24 h of presentation in 46 patients (74%). Forty patients (65%) bled from gastric ulcers, 17 (27%) from duodenal ulcers and 5 (8%) from both. Thirty-one patients (50%) had ulcers with clean base, 20 (32%) with pigmented spot and 11 (18%) with adherent clot. Stigmata of portal hypertension (mosaic-like pattern) during endoscopy were documented in 47 patients (76%). Forty-seven patients (76%) had a Rockall score three to five and 15 (24%) six to eight (Fig. 1). The mean full Rockall score was five. Five patients (8%) rebled. Re-endoscopy was performed in two patients (3%) due to rebleeding. Seven patients (11%) developed complications during admission (after endoscopy): liver failure in four patients (6%), deep venous thrombosis in two (3%) and ascites in one (2%). Fifty-seven patients (92%) were discharged. Five patients (8%) died within the 2 weeks of their admission. The time interval from endoscopy to death ranged from 8 to 220 h, mean 78 ± 91 h. Death was due to continuous bleeding in two patients (3%) and comorbid disease in three (5%). One patient died from liver failure, one from pulmonary embolism and one from cardiac arrest.