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Motion – Prophylactic Banding of Esophageal Varices Is Useful: Arguments for the Motion

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2002
Variceal hemorrhage is a frequent complication of cirrhosis and is associated with a high mortality rate, especially in patients with decompensated liver disease.
Gregory V Stiegmann
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Prevention and management of gastroesophageal varices and variceal hemorrhage in cirrhosis [PDF]

Hepatology, 2007
Prevention and Management of Gastroesophageal Varices and Variceal Hemorrhage in Cirrhosis Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, M.D.,1 Arun J. Sanyal, M.D.,2 Norman D. Grace, M.D., FACG,3 William D. Carey, M.D., MACG,4 the Practice Guidelines Committee of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the Practice Parameters Committee of the American ...
Guadalupe, Garcia-Tsao, Arun J, Sanyal, Norman D, Grace, William, Carey   +3 more
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Variceal hemorrhage in a patient with cirrhosis and congenital hemophilia A: A therapeutic challenge. [PDF]

SAGE Open Med Case Rep
We describe the case of a 61-year-old male patient with a history of hemophilia A and previous hepatitis C virus infection with sustained virological response and no previous documentation of cirrhosis, who was admitted for variceal bleeding.
Peña Amaya RG, Figueredo Peña MDC.
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Pathophysiology and Treatment of Variceal Hemorrhage [PDF]

Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 1996
Portal hypertension results from increases in portal flow and portal vascular resistance. Factors increasing portal blood flow are predominantly humoral. Resistance to portal flow has a fixed component due to distortion of the vasculature by cirrhotic nodules and a variable component that is related to vasoactive substances.
L R, Roberts, P S, Kamath
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Fatores preditivos de óbito em pacientes internados por hemorragia digestiva alta no Hospital Universitário - Universidade Federal de Santa catarina. [PDF]

, 1999
Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Curso de Medicina, Florianópolis ...
Malluta, Éverson Fernando
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Sepsis in cirrhosis: report on the 7th meeting of the International Ascites Club

, 2005
Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response to the presence of infection, mediated via the production of many cytokines, including tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), interleukin (IL)-6, and IL-1, which cause changes in the circulation ...
Wong, F., Balk, R., Patch, D., Garcia-Tsao, G., Navasa, Miquel, Hoefs, J., Soriano Pastor, Germán, Moreau, R., Wong, Florence, Moreau, Richard, Bernardi, M., Christman, B., Soriano, G., Navasa, M., Bernardi, Mauro   +14 more
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Acute variceal bleeding in a patient with idiopathic myelofibrosis successfully treated with endoscopic variceal band ligation and chemotherapy: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2010
Introduction Idiopathic myelofibrosis is a chronic myeloproliferative disorder characterized by leukoerythroblastosis, massive splenomegaly, and increases in the reticular and collagen fibers in the bone marrow.
Yamashina Shunhei, Matsumoto Kenshi, Sakamoto Naoto, Otaka Michiro, Tamaki Kumiko, Watanabe Sumio   +5 more
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Stratifying Risk in the Prevention of Recurrent Variceal Hemorrhage: Results of an Individual Patient Meta-Analysis [PDF]

, 2017
Endoscopic variceal ligation plus beta-blockers (EVL+BB) is currently recommended for variceal rebleeding prophylaxis, a recommendation that extends to all patients with cirrhosis with previous variceal bleeding irrespective of prognostic stage ...
Garcia-Pagán, Juan-Carlos, Sarin, Shiv, Javier Zamora, Joaquin De‐la‐Peña, Martinez, J, Juan G. Abraldes, Albillos, A, Sharma, B, Albillos, Agustín, Javier Martínez, Jaime Bosch, Garcia-Tsao, Guadalupe, Barjesh Sharma, Sarin, S, Gin‐Ho Lo, Garcia-Pagan, J-C, Cooperation, B, David Arroyo, Arroyo, David, Abraldes, Juan G, Shiv Sarin, Arroyo, D, Zamora, Javier, Guadalupe Garcia‐Tsao, Sharma, Barjesh, Agustín Albillos, Juan‐Carlos Garcia‐Pagán, Lo, Gin-Ho, De-la-Peña, Joaquin, Bosch, J, Martínez, Javier, Lo, G-H, null null, Ahmad, I, Garcia-Tsao, G, Bosch, Jaime, Zamora, J, Irfan Ahmad, Abraldes, JG, De-la-Pena, J, Ahmad, Irfan   +40 more
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Shear Wave Elastography for the Assessment of Congestive Liver Disease in Patients With Structural Heart Disease

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound, EarlyView.
Shear wave elastography demonstrated moderate diagnostic accuracy for detecting congestive liver disease in patients with structural heart disease. Increased liver stiffness was associated with echocardiographic markers of venous congestion, supporting the concept that elastography may serve as a noninvasive marker of cardiohepatic interaction ...
Edinéia Camargo Dziadzio, Maria Angelica Jungles Malikoski, Eduardo Henrique Bonotto, Sandra Monica Tochetto, Marco Stephan Lofrano‐Alves   +4 more
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Esophageal varices on computed tomography and subsequent variceal hemorrhage [PDF]

Abdominal Imaging, 2013
Endoscopy is recommended to screen for esophageal varices in patients with cirrhosis. The objective of this study was to identify features on abdominal CT imaging associated variceal hemorrhage (VH).A case-control study was performed among patients with cirrhosis who had a CT scan.
Somsouk, Ma, To’o, Katherine, Ali, Mujtaba, Vittinghoff, Eric, Yeh, Benjamin M, Yee, Judy, Monto, Alex, Inadomi, John M, Aslam, Rizwan   +8 more
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