[Principles of the present-day conservative therapy of gastro-intestinal bleedings in portal hypertension].

The dynamics of conservative treatment of 1091 patients was analyzed for the period from 1964 through 2000. Best results were obtained when instead of traditional hemostatic therapy the patients were treated by combined methods aimed not only at obtaining hemostasis but also at elimination of disorders in the aggregate composition of blood, of microcirculatory disorders, that promoted restoration of the functional ability of the liver. With that end in view, fresh-frozen plasma, albumin, membranotropic, antioxidant, desaggregant and detoxicating therapy were used, with hematocrit lower than 30% hemocomponents were used.