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An overview of downhill esophageal varices: a challenge for medical practice [PDF]

Annals of Medicine
Objectives Unlike the commonly seen uphill esophageal varices in clinical practice, downhill esophageal varices are caused by obstruction of the superior vena cava and azygous venous system.
Donghong Wang, Zhibin Ma
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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, Le-mei Dong, Zen-cai Jiang, Qi-huai Zhu, Shu-Qing Jin   +4 more
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Can “Attenuation Subtraction”, a Computed Tomography Scan‐Based Factor, be Used as a Predictor of High‐Risk Esophageal Varices in Cirrhotic Patients? A Retrospective Cohort Study [PDF]

Health Science Reports
Background and Aims Liver cirrhosis is a severe condition that can result in complications such as portal hypertension and esophageal varices (EVs). While current guidelines recommend screening for EVs, existing procedures are often invasive, costly, and
Mohammad Mersad Mansouri Tehrani, Nasser Bahari, Kian Goudarzi, Faeze Salahshour, Babak Shekarchi, Mohammad Masih Mansouri‐Tehrani, Majid Nouri   +6 more
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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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Spleen Stiffness Measurement as Non-Invasive Surrogate for Esophageal Varices in Chronic Liver Disease

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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Left Gastric Vein Width Is an Important Risk Factor for Exacerbation of Esophageal Varices Post Balloon-Occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration for Gastric Varices in Cirrhotic Patients

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, Kazushige Nirei, Tatsuo Kanda, Masayuki Honda, Tomotaka Ishii, Shuhei Arima, Yoichiro Yamana, Naoki Matsumoto, Shunichi Matsuoka, Mitsuhiko Moriyama   +9 more
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Screening for esophageal varices [PDF]

Clinical Liver Disease, 2012
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Dominique Thabut, Sara Lemoinne
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Association between severity of chronic liver disease with grading of oesophageal varices in children

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal, 2022
Chronic liver disease is a uncommon manifestation in the children and many of them presents with oesophageal varices. The aim of this study was to observe the association between severity of chronic liver diseases determined by Child- Pugh score with ...
Rubaiyat Alam, ASM Bazlul Karim, Md Rukunuzzaman, Khan Lamia Nahid, Subarna Rani Das   +4 more
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Report of a case of cirrhotic portal hypertension with ectopic varices in the bilateral pulmonary hilar

DEN Open, 2022
Here, we report the case of patient cirrhosis with esophageal and gastric fundal varices who developed rare ectopic varices in the bilateral pulmonary hilar after repeated endoscopic treatments (tissue adhesive for gastric fundal varices + esophageal ...
Ke Zhu, Wei Zhang, Wei Shao, Jing Ding, Chao Ma   +4 more
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Coil-Assisted Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration (CARTO) for the Treatment of Portal Hypertensive Variceal Bleeding: Preliminary Results. [PDF]

, 2014
ObjectivesTo describe the technical feasibility, safety, and clinical outcomes of coil-assisted retrograde transvenous obliteration (CARTO) in treating portal hypertensive non-esophageal variceal hemorrhage.MethodsFrom October 2012 to December 2013, 20 ...
Busuttil, Ronald, Durazo, Francisco, Goldstein, Leonard, Gomes, Antoinette S, Han, Steven-Huy, Kee, Stephen T, Lee, Edward W, Loh, Christopher T, McWilliams, Justin, Moriarty, John, Saab, Sammy, Tafti, Bashir A   +11 more
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