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Nodular regenerative hyperplasia and liver transplantation: a systematic review
Frontiers in Transplantation, 2023 Nodular regenerative hyperplasia (NRH) is a primary disease of the liver that may cause noncirrhotic portal hypertension. Common causes include autoimmune, hematologic, immune deficiency, and myeloproliferative disorders. Given the limited data regarding
Ben E. Biesterveld +5 more
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Pulmonary embolism after sclerotherapy treatment of bleeding varices
Annals of Hepatology, 2008 We describe a case of pulmonary embolism after sclerosant injection for bleeding oesophageal varices. The patient was managed successfully with enoxaparin.
Syed F. Habib +3 more
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Clinical Image of Varicose Veins of Upper Extremity [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic ResearchA 72-year-old male presented to the Department of Shalyatantra with the chief complaint of longstanding swellings in the left forearm (as shown in [Table/Fig-1]) over the last 20 years, which had been progressively increasing in size and number over the ...
Shubham Bobade, Sheetal Asutkar
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Carvedilol in the treatment of portal hypertension
The Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology, 2011 Variceal bleeding is a major event in the natural history of end-stage liver disease with a subsequent high mortality rate. Non-selective β-blockers are currently the drugs of choice for preventing first variceal bleeding. Endoscopic rubber band ligation
Hamdan Al-Ghamdi
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Predictors of variceal rebleeding in liver cirrhosis
Acta Medica Alanya, 2023 Aim: Cirrhotic patients with acute variceal bleeding are characterized by a high mortality and rebleeding rate. The aim of this study was to explore predictors of rebleeding in cirrhotic patients.Methods: Cirrhotic patients who were admitted to the ...
Tuncer Temel +2 more
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Non-Invasive Predictors of Esophageal Varices in Alcoholic Chronic Liver Disease
Journal of Nobel Medical College, 2019 Background: Alcohol is widely consumed socially accepted recreational beverage, that is toxic and affects directly or indirectly almost every organ. Spectrum of alcoholic liver disease ranges from fatty liver to cirrhosis. One of the complications of the
Rishab Shrestha +3 more
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JGH Open, 2020 Background and Aim Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) is the gold standard tool in both screening/diagnosis and management of varices in cirrhotic patients; however, its invasive nature may be uncomfortable to some patients, and in addition, it may be ...
Yara N Elkenawy +3 more
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Khyber Medical University Journal, 2023 OBJECTIVE: To evaluate Glasgow Blatchford (GB) scores ability for risk stratification in patients presenting with upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB).
Fatima Khalil +4 more
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IJU Case Reports, 2023 Introduction Venous hemorrhage from ectopic varices is potentially fatal. This report describes a rare case in which bleeding from mesenteric varices in an ileal conduit was treated successfully by embolization therapy.
Ayaka Sakurai +10 more
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β-blockers in advanced cirrhosis: More friend than enemy [PDF]
Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, 2021 Nonselective beta-adrenergic blocker (NSBB) therapy for the prevention of initial and recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding in cirrhotic patients with gastroesophageal varices has been used for the past four decades.
Ki Tae Yoon, Hongqun Liu, Samuel S. Lee
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