 Gastrointestinal angiodysplasias are an important cause of difficult to manage bleeding, especially in older patients. Angiodysplasias are technical challenging to manage endoscopic. Some patients are blood transfusion or iron infusion dependent due to rebleedings despite endoscopic intervention. In clinical practice we face difficulties in these patients as there is no known effective alternative treatment. In small cohort studies octreotide appears to decrease the bleeding episodes in those patients, but the evidence is still to weak to integrate this treatment modality in daily practice. 