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Frequency of Gastro Esophageal Varices in Cirrhotic Patients with Splenomegaly

Pakistan Journal of Medical Research
Background: Patients with esophageal varices due to cirrhosis have a high propensity to bleed. Changes in hepatic structure result in higher resistance to portal blood flow which causes esophageal varices to form dilated portal veins and splenomegaly ...
Asma Abdul Razzak, Kamran Ali, Ayesha Zia, Abdul Lateef   +3 more
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Prevalence and Outcome of Bleeding Gastro-esophageal Varices in Medical Intensive Care Unit at Zagazig University Hospitals, Egypt [PDF]

Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases, 2014
Background and study aim:Ruptured gastro-esophageal varices (GEV) are the most severe and frequent cause of gastrointestinal bleeding in cirrhotic patients, leading to death in 5% to 8% of patients during the first 48 hours.
Abdulla Abdelaziz, Monkez Yousif
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The Correlation between Portal Vein Diameter, Splenic Size, platelet count/spleen length ratio, and Gastro-Esophageal Varices in the Liver Cirrhosis

National Board of Examinations Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023
Aims and objective: The main aim of this study was to employ non-invasive methodologies, such as evaluating the portal vein diameter (PVD) and the size of the spleen, as well as the ratio of platelet count to splenic length, in order to identify ...
Priyesh Patel, Jignesh Rathod, Ravi K Bhatt, Kaushik Bhattacharya, Ajit kumar Shrivastava, Premaram Chaoudhary, Vipul D Yagnik   +6 more
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Comprehensive treatment of patients with gastric variceal bleeding

Медицина неотложных состояний, 2022
Gastro-oesophageal varices are the major clinical manifestations of cirrhosis and portal hypertension. Bleeding from gastric varices is usually severe and is associated with higher morta­lity and a higher risk of rebleeding than from esophageal varices ...
S.M. Chooklin, S.S. Chuklin
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Non-invasive Screening of Esophageal Varices in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis [PDF]

Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases, 2021
A new study in this issue of the Afro-Egyptian journal of infectious and endemic diseases ‎investigated the use of the PAPAS score (Platelet/Age/ Phosphatase/AFP/AST) for predicting EVs ‎in HCV-related cirrhotic patients.
Elsayed Abd Elbaser
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Role of Serotonin in Development of Varices in Patients with Cirrhosis [PDF]

Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases, 2017
Background and study aim: Serotonin is a one of the monoamine neurotransmitters secreted by serotonergic nerve endings in multiple sites in the brain and gastro-intestinal tract wall.
Mohamed Farag, Mohamed Zaghloul, Naglaa Ramadan, Adel Mostafa   +3 more
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EFFECT OF NON-SELECTIVE BETA BLOCKERS ON ESOPHAGEAL VARICES AND PORTAL VEIN DIAMETER IN CIRRHOTIC HCV PATIENTS [PDF]

Zagazig University Medical Journal, 2018
Background: Esophageal varices is one of the major complications of portal hypertension and one of the main causes of death in cirrhotic patients, so prophylaxis from esophageal varices bleeding can decrease the number of deaths in those patients.
Waseem Seleem, Essam Abdel Wahab, Khaled Lakouz, Sahar Zaghloul, Ahmed Amin   +4 more
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Hepatic Venous Pressure Gradient Predicts Further Decompensation in Cirrhosis Patients with Acute Esophageal Variceal Bleeding

Diagnostics, 2023
Background: The role of hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG) in predicting further decompensation in cirrhosis patients with acute variceal bleeding (AVB) is not known.
Manas Vaishnav, Sagnik Biswas, Abhinav Anand, Piyush Pathak, Shekhar Swaroop, Arnav Aggarwal, Umang Arora, Anshuman Elhence, Shivanand Gamanagatti, Amit Goel, Ramesh Kumar, Shalimar   +11 more
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Significance of Non-Invasive Markers as Predictor of Esophageal Varices in Liver Cirrhosis

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2017
Introduction: Upper gastro-intestinal endoscopy remains the gold standard for screening for esophageal varices but it has its own limitations. It is an invasive, expensive and uncomfortable procedure and needs clinical expertise.
Dipendra Khadka, Sushil Prajapati, Sudhamshu KC, Jeetendra Kaji Shrestha, Niyanta Karki, Bikash Jaishi, Kiran Regmi, Sandip Khadka   +7 more
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AGREEMENT BETWEEN MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY AND ENDOSCOPY FOR THE EVALUATION OF GASTRO-ESOPHAGEAL VARICES IN PATIENTS WITH PORTAL HYPERTENSION.

INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH, 2021
Aim: The aim is to study the agreement between MDCT and endoscopy in diagnosing gastroesophageal varices in patients of chronic liver disease with portal hypertension, keeping endoscopy as gold standard. Materials and Methods: The study included 29 cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension assessed between August 2018 to August 2020 who underwent ...
Mehak Garg, Nirmal Kumar Prabhu, Shivane Garg, Saravanan S, Rubalakshmi S, Srikanth Moorthy   +5 more
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