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Out of the 1,284 patients included in this study, there were 297 cases of upper digestive hemorrhage, the dominant etiology being the variceal bleeding (217 cases-73%), and 80 (27%) cases of upper non-variceal digestive hemorrhage. Duodenal ulcer was the main cause for upper non-variceal digestive hemorrhage in case of cirrhotic patients considered for this study (33.75%), followed by gastric ulcer (21.25%), portal hypertensive gastropathy (17.5%), acute erosive gastritis (11.25%), Mallory-Weiss syndrome (6.25%), esophageal ulcer (5%), antral vascular ectasia (1.25%), duodenal polyps (1.25%) and exulcerated gastric tumor (1.25%). We also observed the cases of hemorrhagic relapse in the group of patients with variceal hemorrhages. Variceal bleedings are predominant in each Child-Pugh clinical category, but one must mention that the risk of variceal rupture increases with the severity of the …