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Self-expanding metal stent for relieving the stricture after endoscopic injection for esophageal varices. [PDF]

open access: yesWorld J Clin Cases
Zhang FL   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

[Esophageal varices].

open access: yesTidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke, 1983
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Prevalence and Prognostic Significance of the Presence of Esophageal Varices in Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma

open access: yesClinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2006
BACKGROUND & AIMS: It has been suggested that clinically relevant portal hypertension may affect the therapeutic management and prognosis of cirrhotic patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
Domenico Risso   +2 more
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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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