Medicina (Lithuania), 2022 Background and Objectives: Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) could be currently one of the best therapies for patients with gastric varices.
Taku Mizutani +2 more
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Evaluation and Management of Esophageal and Gastric Varices in Patients with Cirrhosis [PDF]
Clinics in Liver Disease, 2020 Variceal bleeding is a complication of cirrhosis that defines decompensation. Important advances in the management of gastroesophageal varices have led to a significant decrease in the morbidity and mortality. Achieving these results in clinical practice is contingent on clinicians applying the best practice strategies and appropriate referral to a ...
Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao
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Clinics, 2012 OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine whether and how the diameter of the vein that gives rise to the inflowing vein of the esophageal and gastric fundic varices secondary to posthepatitic cirrhosis, as measured with multidetector-row ...
Hai-Ying Zhou +2 more
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Managing liver cirrhotic complications: Overview of esophageal and gastric varices. [PDF]
Clin Mol Hepatol, 2020 Managing liver cirrhosis in clinical practice is still a challenging problem as its progression is associated with serious complications, such as variceal bleeding that may increase mortality. Portal hypertension (PH) is the main key for the development of liver cirrhosis complications.
Lesmana CRA, Raharjo M, Gani RA.
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Efficiency and Safety of Endoscopic Injection Sclerotherapy With Ligation for Esophageal Varices: A Retrospective Study. [PDF]
DEN OpenABSTRACT Objectives Endoscopic injection sclerotherapy with ligation (EISL) is a combined endoscopic treatment that involves endoscopic injection sclerotherapy (EIS) and endoscopic variceal ligation. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of conventional EIS and EISL in treating esophageal varices and the usefulness of EISL.
Maki K +6 more
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Gastric varices in patients with liver cirrhosis: pathogenesis, classification, and therapeutic management. [PDF]
Clin Exp HepatolThis review paper discusses the pathogenesis, classification, and principles of prevention and treatment of portal hypertension, with particular emphasis on gastric varices.
Simon K, Stryczek-Lis M, Stępień K.
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Pancytopenia With Hypocellular Bone Marrow Revealing Extrahepatic Portal Venous Obstruction and Cavernous Transformation in a Child: A Case Report of a Diagnostic Challenge. [PDF]
Clin Case RepABSTRACT Extrahepatic portal venous obstruction (EHPVO) is a leading cause of prehepatic portal hypertension in children, particularly in developing countries. While upper gastrointestinal bleeding is the most common presentation, EHPVO may rarely manifest predominantly with hematological abnormalities due to hypersplenism, posing a diagnostic ...
Adhikari S +6 more
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Gastric Endoscopic Mucosal Resection and Polypectomy among Patients with Liver Cirrhosis and Esophageal Varices in the setting of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding [PDF]
African Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2023 BackgroundGastric polyps are not infrequently reported among cirrhotic patients. Endoscopic resection of gastric polyps among patients with liver cirrhosis and esophageal varices carries the risk of post-polypectomy bleeding.
Bassam Salama +3 more
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Intraluminal eradication via transmural supply blocking, a novel concept for the treatment of esophageal and gastric varices by endoscopic ultrasound-guided perforating vein blocking [PDF]
Gastroenterology ReportGuanyu Zhou, Zhou Guanyu
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Endoscopic therapy of gastric variceal bleeding
Медицина неотложных состояний, 2022 Bleeding from esophageal and gastric varices is the most life-threatening complication of liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension. Gastric variceal bleeding is often more serious and can be fatal.
S.M. Chooklin, S.S. Chuklin, Ya.R. Dutka
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