[Conservative management and sclerosing injections in the treatment of esophageal variceal bleeding - a comparative study (author's transl)].

In a 3-year-period (1977-1979) we have treated 76 esophageal variceal bleedings from 60 patients. We compared the results of the usual conservative therapy in the first 18 months with the results of the second in which we additionally tried to sclerose the varices. Both groups of patients were comparable as well to age and sex as to aetiology and functions of the liver.