Successful Endoscopic Sealing of Gastric Perforation With Tissue Adhesive Following Endoscopic Treatment for Gastric Fundal Variceal Bleeding: A Case Report. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Gastric perforation after endoscopic treatment of gastric fundal variceal bleeding is extremely rare. In carefully selected patients with early, small perforations and limited peritoneal contamination, endoscopic tissue adhesive injection combined with conservative management may provide a feasible nonsurgical rescue strategy.
Liu T +6 more
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Endoscopic Treatment and Prevention of Acute Variceal Hemorrhage [PDF]
Gastroesophageal varices occur in more than half of patients with cirrhosis and the incidence increases as liver function worsens. Although the mortality rate for acute variceal bleeding has decreased with the development of variceal endoscopic ...
Youngdae Kim
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Prevention and management of gastroesophageal varices [PDF]
Bleeding from gastroesophageal varices is a serious complication in patients with liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension. Although there has been significance improvement in the prognosis of variceal bleeding with advancement in diagnostic and ...
Yeon Seok Seo
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Predicting survival in patients with 'non-high-risk' acute variceal bleeding receiving β-blockers+ligation to prevent re-bleeding. [PDF]
BACKGROUND&AIMS Pre-emptive transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) is the treatment of choice in high-risk acute variceal bleeding (AVB; i.e., Child-Turcotte-Pugh [CTP] B8-9+active bleeding/C10-13). Nevertheless, 'non-high-risk' patients
Primignani, Massimo +61 more
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Comprehensive treatment of patients with gastric variceal bleeding
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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Pharmacologic prevention of variceal bleeding and rebleeding. [PDF]
BACKGROUND Variceal bleeding is a major complication of portal hypertension, which is associated with significant mortality. Moreover, patients surviving a variceal bleeding episode have very high risk of rebleeding, which is associated with mortality
Virginia Hernández-Gea +5 more
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The Impact of Achieving Sustained Virological Response with Direct Acting Antivirals on Gastroesophageal Varices and Variceal Bleeding [PDF]
Background: The effect of treating chronic (HCV) by direct acting antiviral drugs (DAA) on gastroesophageal varices and variceal bleeding remain unclear Methods: prospective study we enrolled 200 patients with chronic HCV infection and gastroesophageal ...
Ahmed Fawzy Selim +3 more
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Background. Portal cavernoma (PC) is the most critical condition with risk or variceal hemorrhage in pediatric patients. We retrospectively investigated the patients with PC focusing on the predictors for recurrent variceal bleeding. Methods.
Hongjie Guo +3 more
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Background / Aim: Balloon tamponade has been widely available in emergency situations of acute variceal bleeding. To lessen the complications of Balloon tamponade, a new special type of stent for exclusive use in acute variceal bleeding has been ...
Mohamed S Zakaria +3 more
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Risk and causes of gastroesophageal bleeding in patients with liver cirrhosis [PDF]
Background/Aim. Variceal bleeding is the most life-threating complication in liver cirrhosis. The aim of this study was to analyze the sources of gastroesophageal bleeding in patients with liver cirrhosis and to ascertain the risk factors of bleeding ...
Benedeto-Stojanov Daniela +4 more
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