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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.
Tatsuo Kanda, Mitsuhiko Moriyama
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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 ...
Tian-Wu Chen, Haiying Zhou
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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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Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging, 2010 Aim: The purpose of this study was to assess the value of Doppler evaluation of left gastric vein hemodynamics when monitoring portal hypertension patients, by correlating Doppler ultrasonography (USG) parameters with the severity of esophageal varices ...
Subathra Adithan +4 more
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Evaluation of endoscopic secondary prophylaxis in children and adolescents with esophageal varices
Arquivos de GastroenterologiaBACKGROUND Bleeding of esophageal varices is the main cause of morbidity and mortality in children and adults with portal hypertension and there are few studies involving secondary prophylaxis in children and adolescents.
Júlio Rocha PIMENTA +5 more
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Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging, 2017 Approximately one in six patients with portal hypertension who develop varices at sites of portosystemic venous collaterals has gastric varices due to hepatofugal flow into the gastric veins.
Pushpinder S Khera +2 more
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Endoscopic ultrasound–guided coil–assisted retrograde transgastric occlusion of shunt efferent for gastric variceal bleeding [PDF]
VideoGIEBackground and Aims: EUS-guided therapy for fundal varices targets the gastric shunt or afferent feeders. In cases with multiple feeders, this may not achieve complete obliteration.
Rizwan Ahamed, MD, DM +7 more
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Massive Esophagogastric Variceal Bleeding from Chronic Portal Vein Thrombosis in a Non-Cirrhotic Young Man: A Resource-Limited Endoscopic Management Dilemma [PDF]
International Medical Case Reports JournalOsman Ahmed Tahajud,1 Omar Hassan Ahmed21Department of Internal Medicine, Dr. Sumait Hospital, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, SIMAD University, Mogadishu, Somalia; 2Department of Internal Medicine, Dr.
Tahajud OA, Ahmed OH
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Annals of Saudi Medicine, 2008 Background and Objective: Symmers′ periportal fibrosis secondary to schistosomiasis is a common cause of portal hypertension worldwide. Data on the prevalence of gastric varices and portal hypertensive gastropathy in this group of patients with ...
Mudawi Hatim +2 more
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