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Dual Microcatheter Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration of Gastric Varices: Coil Embolization as a Substitute for Balloon Occlusion [PDF]

Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2012
Dual microcatheter retrograde transvenous obliteration (DMRTO) of gastric varices enables dual microcatheters to be advanced to the gastric varices themselves or to a site adjacent to the varices.
Hiroki Minamiguchi, Nobuyuki Kawai, Morio Sato, Munehisa Sawa, Akira Ikoma, Hiroki Sanda, Kouhei Nakata, Motoki Nakai, Tetsuo Sonomura   +8 more
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Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration for gastric varices: the relationship between the clinical outcome and gastrorenal shunt occlusion [PDF]

BMC Medical Imaging, 2010
Background The rupture of gastric varices is associated with high mortality rate. Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (B-RTO), a minimally invasive procedure that was introduced in the mid-1990s, has been widely accepted in Japan ...
Inoue Yoshihiro, Hirose Atsuo, Sone Miyuki, Katoh Kenichi, Fujino Yasuhisa, Onodera Makoto   +5 more
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Human thrombin for the treatment of gastric and ectopic varices [PDF]

, 2012
AIM: To evaluate the efficacy of human thrombin in the treatment of bleeding gastric and ectopic varices. METHODS: Retrospective observational study in a Tertiary Referral Centre.
Norma C. McAvoy
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Emergency transileocolic vein obliteration for life-threatening bleeding from gastric varices [PDF]

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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Usefulness of Microcatheters Inserted Overnight for Additional Injection of Sclerosant after Initial Balloon-Occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration of Gastric Varices [PDF]

Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2011
In patients with large gastric varices, dose limitation of the sclerosant can cause difficulties in achieving complete thrombosis of varices during a single balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) procedure.
Tetsuo Sonomura, Shinya Sahara, Wataru Ono, Morio Sato, Nobuyuki Kawai, Hiroki Minamiguchi, Motoki Nakai, Kazushi Kishi   +7 more
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Evaluation of therapeutic effects and serious complications following endoscopic obliterative therapy with Histoacryl [PDF]

Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology, 2010
Takahiro Sato, Katsu YamazakiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Sapporo Kosei General Hospital, Sapporo, JapanBackground and aims: Our aim was to evaluate the utility of endoscopic obliterative therapy with Histoacryl for gastric varices and to investigate ...
Takahiro Sato, Katsu Yamazaki
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Isolated gastric varices associated with antiphospholipid syndrome and protein S deficiency: a case report and review of the literature [PDF]

Journal of International Medical Research
The mortality rate of gastric varices bleeding can reach 20% within 6 weeks. Isolated gastric varices (IGVs) refer to gastric varices without esophageal varices and typically arise as a common complication of left portal hypertension.
Xueyan Li, Jiandi Wu, Feifei Fang, Ying Liu, Wewei Jiang, Gangping Li, Jun Song   +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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Serum bile acids as a prognostic biomarker in biliary atresia following Kasai portoenterostomy

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Serum bile acid levels predict outcomes in patients with biliary atresia who achieve normalized bilirubin levels after Kasai portoenterostomy. Abstract Background and Aims In biliary atresia, serum bilirubin is commonly used to predict outcomes after Kasai portoenterostomy (KP).
Sanjiv Harpavat, Kieran Hawthorne, Kenneth D. R. Setchell, Monica Narvaez Rivas, Lisa Henn, Charlotte A. Beil, Saul J. Karpen, Vicky L. Ng, Estella M. Alonso, Jorge A. Bezerra, Stephen L. Guthery, Simon Horslen, Kathy M. Loomes, Patrick McKiernan, John C. Magee, Robert M. Merion, Jean P. Molleston, Philip Rosenthal, Richard J. Thompson, Kasper S. Wang, Ronald J. Sokol, Benjamin L. Shneider, for Childhood Liver Disease Research Network (ChiLDReN)   +22 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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