[Gastroesophageal reflux--cause of hemorrhaging esophageal varices?].

The results of the examinations do not depend on the peptic theory of the haemorrhage of the oesophageal varices in patients with liver cirrhosis, since the relative frequency of reflux troubles and of gastrooesophageal reflux in patients with liver cirrhosis and haemorrhage of the oesophageal varices was not found greater than in patients with liver cirrhosis and oesophageal varices without haemorrhage as well as the combination of reflux oesophagitis and oesophageal varices was rarely to be observed in the endoscopic material.