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The Role of Endoscopic Ultrasound for Esophageal Varices
Diagnostics, 2020 Esophageal varices are caused by the development of collateral circulation in the esophagus as a result of portal hypertension. It is important to administer appropriate preventive treatment because bleeding varices can be fatal.
Kazunori Nagashima +11 more
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Prediction of large esophageal varices in cirrhotic patients using classification and regression tree analysis [PDF]
Clinics, 2011 OBJECTIVES: Recent guidelines recommend that all cirrhotic patients should undergo endoscopic screening for esophageal varices. That identifying cirrhotic patients with esophageal varices by noninvasive predictors would allow for the restriction of the ...
Wan-dong Hong +4 more
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Endoscopic therapy using an endoscopic variceal ligation for minute cancer of the esophagogastric junction complicated with esophageal varices: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2010 Introduction Standard endoscopic mucosal resection or endoscopic submucosal dissection is a procedure for patients with minute cancers, complicated with esophageal varices that puts them at high risk of bleeding.
Inamori Masahiko +11 more
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Pathophysiology of Portal Hypertension and Esophageal Varices [PDF]
International Journal of Hepatology, 2012 Esophageal varices are the major complication of portal hypertension. It is detected in about 50% of cirrhosis patients, and approximately 5–15% of cirrhosis patients show newly formed varices or worsening of varices each year.
Hitoshi Maruyama, Osamu Yokosuka
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Development of Fundal Varices in Cirrhotic Patients after Eradication of Esophageal Varices [PDF]
Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College, 2017 Background: To analyze the development of fundal varices in cirrhotic patients after eradication of esophageal varices Methods: In this observational study 150 patients of liver cirrhosis, with the history of upper gastrointestinal tract bleed and ...
Muhammad Ajmal
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Evaluation of endoscopic secondary prophylaxis in children and adolescents with esophageal varices
Arquivos de Gastroenterologia, 2017 BACKGROUND 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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F1000Research, 2021 Background: Bleeding from esophageal varices is a life-threatening complication in cirrhosis. Screening endoscopy is recommended in cirrhotic patients to identify patients at risk of variceal hemorrhage, but this is an invasive procedure and has ...
Anum Afsar +5 more
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Journal of Nobel Medical College, 2022 Background: In patients with chronic liver diseases, liver and spleen stiffness measurement by elastography is the most recent available noninvasive tool.
Pratap Sagar Tiwari, Sudhamshu KC
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Medicina, 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 +9 more
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Esophageal virtual disease landscape using mechanics-informed machine learning [PDF]
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 134 (2022) 102435, 2021 The pathogenesis of esophageal disorders is related to the esophageal wall mechanics. Therefore, to understand the underlying fundamental mechanisms behind various esophageal disorders, it is crucial to map the esophageal wall mechanics-based parameters onto physiological and pathophysiological conditions corresponding to altered bolus transit and ...
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