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Novel gel-immersion endoscopic injection sclerotherapy method for prophylactic hemostasis of esophageal varices: A pilot feasibility and safety study (with video). [PDF]

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Bleeding Esophageal Varices

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1981
The unresolved issue of the optimal treatment of portal hypertension attests to the disappointments in present treatment. In reality, the disappointments are a result of progressive liver disease, which is not helped and probably deteriorates more rapidly after shunting operations.
F L, Sax, A M, Cooperman
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The Treatment of Esophageal Varices

Annual Review of Medicine, 1992
The etiology, the geographic variation in pathology, and the level of hepatic reserve all affect the prognosis in patients with bleeding from esophageal varices. Acute variceal bleeding requires emergency treatment. The options include pharmacological therapy, balloon tube tamponade, and urgent sclerotherapy used singly or in combination.
J, Terblanche, J E, Krige, P C, Bornman
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Esophageal varices

The American Journal of Surgery, 1990
Bleeding from esophageal varices is related to the size and pressure of varices, endoscopic danger signs, and severity of liver failure. Prevention of bleeding with propranolol has given conflicting results in controlled trials, but is a safe treatment.
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Pregnancy and esophageal varices

The American Journal of Surgery, 1982
A review of the case histories of 53 patients with established cirrhosis who had 83 pregnancies and 38 noncirrhotic patients with varices who had 77 pregnancies suggests that conception may occur in patients with varying degrees of hepatic decompensation, that sustaining gestation to term and delivery is unlikely to overtax cirrhotic livers in patients
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Cineradiography of Esophageal Varices

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1964
Cineradiography of the esophagus and esophagoscopy were performed on 76 patients with clinically suspected esophageal varices. Varices were diagnosed cineradiographically in 67 patients. In comparing the radiological and endoscopic findings, there was an 85% agreement as to the presence or absence of varices.
D C, ADLER, B J, HAVERBACK, H I, MEYERS
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Esophageal Varices in Children

The American Journal of Nursing, 1972
pends on prompt and skillful medical and nursing care. Although a nurse may not encounter these children often, she should be familiar with the problem. Normally, blood from the digestive tract empties first into the portal system, or liver circulation, before returning to the heart via the inferior vena cava.
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