Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration for the treatment of gastric varices. [PDF]
, 2012 Clinical Perspectives in Hepatology aims to engage two experts with opinions supporting differing perspectives on the management of a case. Typically, the case represents an area of debate or evolving practice in clinical hepatology.
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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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Current Approaches to the Treatment of Gastric Varices: Glue, Coil Application, TIPS, and BRTO
Medicina, 2019 Gastric varices are less common than esophageal varices, and their treatment is quite challenging. Gastric varix bleedings (GVB) occur less frequently than esophageal varix (EV) bleedings and represent 10to 30% of all variceal bleedings.
Vedat Goral, Nevin Yılmaz
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Diameters of left gastric vein and its originating vein on magnetic resonance imaging in liver cirrhosis patients with hepatitis B : Association with endoscopic grades of esophageal varices [PDF]
, 2014 Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/108624/1/hepr12246 ...
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The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, 2019 Background Shear wave elastography is an ultrasound applied technique used to measure tissue stiffness as a result of a disease. So, it can be used to evaluate liver stiffness as a result of liver cirrhosis and could correlate it with esophageal varices.
Mohammed Zaki +2 more
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Recomendação de Baveno VI Sobre Evicção da Endoscopia de Rastreio em Doentes com Cirrose: Já Lá Estamos? [PDF]
, 2016 INTRODUCTION: Recent studies assessed the predictive value of liver transient elastography, combined or not with platelet count, for the presence of esophageal varices in patients with liver cirrhosis, and multiple cutoffs have been proposed. The Baveno
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Study of Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Endoscopic findings in Portal Hypertension
Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2013 Introduction: The gut mucosa in portal hypertension is the seat of microcirculatory changes that compromise its integrity and increase its susceptibility to damage.
Lochan Karki +2 more
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Beyond the scope and the glue: update on evaluation and management of gastric varices
BMC Gastroenterology, 2020 Gastric varices are encountered less frequently than esophageal varices. Nonetheless, gastric variceal bleeding is more severe and associated with worse outcomes.
Cyriac Abby Philips +5 more
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Comprehensive treatment of patients with gastric variceal bleeding
Медицина неотложных состояний, 2022 Gastro-oesophageal varices are the major clinical manifestations of cirrhosis and portal hypertension. Bleeding from gastric varices is usually severe and is associated with higher mortality and a higher risk of rebleeding than from esophageal varices ...
S.M. Chooklin, S.S. Chuklin
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Evaluation of Esophageal Varices by Multidetector-row CT: Correlation with Endoscopic ‘Red Color Sign’ [PDF]
, 2007 <P>To evaluate the ability of multidetector-row CT (MDCT) to predict a risk of hemorrhage in patients with esophageal varices, a total of 40 MDCT scans were performed in 29 patients who had been diagnosed with esophageal varices by conventional ...
Akaki, Shiro +5 more
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