Abstract
Prognostic survey on 5-years-survival rate and direct cause of death in 259 patients with liver cirrhosis, including 81 cases complicated by hepatoma, who have received the preventive endoscopic injection sclerotherapy for esophageal varices, was done. Age and each direct cause of death was also inventigated. Results : A 5-years-survival rate was 71.8%, and this result corresponded with those in some recent reports. As the direct causes of death, incidence of bleeding from the rupture of the esophageal varices was only 3.3%, and hepatic failure, 12.2%. On the other hand, hepatoma occupied very high percentage; 72.2%. The deaths caused by non-hepatic diseases relatively frequently encountered; incidence was 20.2%. The ages at death classified by direct causes of death : age at death by varices bleeding and hepatic failure was 60.3 years old, and that by non-hepatic diseases was 66.5 years old.
