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Beyond the scope and the glue: update on evaluation and management of gastric varices [PDF]

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, Rizwan Ahamed, Sasidharan Rajesh, Tom George, Meera Mohanan, Philip Augustine   +5 more
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Bleeding from gastric body varices effectively treated with endoscopic band ligation

International Medical Case Reports Journal, 2012
Takahiro Sato, Sho KitagawaDepartment of Gastroenterology, Sapporo Kosei General Hospital, Sapporo, JapanAbstract: A 55-year-old man with alcoholic liver cirrhosis was admitted to hospital with tarry stools.
Sato T, Kitagawa S
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Management of gastric varices with EUS-guided coil ablation [PDF]

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Background and Aims: Gastric varices are associated with a greater risk of bleeding and mortality than esophageal varices. Standard treatments, including endoscopic cyanoacrylate injection and balloon retrograde transvenous obliteration, pose risks of ...
Davekaran Buttar, MBBS, Mayank Goyal, MBBS, Ashwariya Ohri, MBBS, Andrew C. Storm, MD, Eric J. Vargas Valls, MD, MS, Michael A. McIntyre, AEA, Barham Abu Dayyeh, MD, MPH, FASGE   +6 more
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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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Spinal Hematoma as a Rare Complication of Balloon-occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration for Gastric Varices: A Case Report. [PDF]

Interv Radiol (Higashimatsuyama)
Hagiwara H, Takeuchi Y, Komita M, Yasuda N, Higa A, Kondo M.   +5 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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Clinical Outcomes of Balloon-Occluded Versus Plug-Assisted Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration in the Treatment of Gastric Varices. [PDF]

J Belg Soc Radiol
Cho Y, Park SJ, Lee HN, Lee S, Kim SS.
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Emergency transileocolic vein obliteration for life-threatening bleeding from gastric varices

Radiology Case Reports, 2023
We report a case of life-threatening bleeding from gastric varices in a patient with alcoholic cirrhosis, which was treated by emergency transileocolic vein obliteration (TIO). A 46-year-old male with a massive hematemesis was transported to our hospital
Fumio Chikamori, MD, Kai Mizobuchi, Ryo Hamada, Satoshi Ito, MD, Sunao Uemura, MD, Ryo Yamada, Hisashi Matsuoka, MD, Nobuyuki Tanida, MD, Niranjan Sharma, MD   +8 more
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Transcatheter splenic artery embolization for pancreatic sinistral portal hypertension with gastrointestinal blee-ding: a case report [PDF]

Waike lilun yu shijian, 2022
Pancreatic sinistral portal hypertension (PSPH) is a rare entity resulting from splenic vein obstruction and is characterized by splenomegaly, gastric and/or esophageal varices with normal liver function.
CHEN Xiaojuan, ZHANG Wen, CAI Yu
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Endoscopic therapy of gastric variceal bleeding

Медицина неотложных состояний, 2022
Bleeding from esophageal and gastric varices is the most life-threatening complication of liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension. Gastric variceal bleeding is often more serious and can be fatal.
S.M. Chooklin, S.S. Chuklin, Ya.R. Dutka
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