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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, Raza Muhammad, Anastasios Koulaouzidis, Dr, MD, MRCP, Jaber Gasem   +3 more
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Successful embolization of subcutaneous mesenteric varices within an ileal conduit in a patient with liver cirrhosis

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, Akira Ohtsu, Seiji Arai, Masanori Aoki, Miho Ikeya, Hiroyuki Tokue, Keisuke Hori, Yuji Fujizuka, Yoshitaka Sekine, Hidekazu Koike, Kazuhiro Suzuki   +10 more
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Clinical Image of Varicose Veins of Upper Extremity [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
A 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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An obscure cause of gastrointestinal bleeding: Recurrent duodenal variceal hemorrhage treated with intramuscular octreotide in the absence of portal hypertension

JGH Open, 2023
Duodenal varices (DVs) are ectopic gastrointestinal varices (ECVs) associated with portal hypertension (PH). We present the case of an 82‐year‐old woman who presented with symptomatic anemia secondary to DV hemorrhage diagnosed on ...
Robert S O'Neill, William J Wang, Patrick Chan, Vincent Ho, Christine Verdon, Ian Turner, Priya Acharya   +6 more
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Elastography-based screening for esophageal varices in patients with advanced chronic liver disease

World Journal of Gastroenterology, 2019
Elastography-based liver stiffness measurement (LSM) is a non-invasive tool for estimating liver fibrosis but also provides an estimate for the severity of portal hypertension in patients with advanced chronic liver disease (ACLD).
R. Paternostro, T. Reiberger, T. Bucsics
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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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Seasonal variation in acute variceal upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding: Experience of one decade from Northern India

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2021
Background: There have been several reports of seasonal variations in the incidence of esophageal variceal bleeding but the data available from this part of the world is scanty.
Shabir Ahmad Shiekh , Ali Imran , Showkat Ahmad Kadla , Mohammad Yasin , Bilal Ahmad Khan , Zeeshan Ahmad Wani , Nisar Ahmad Shah   +6 more
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Four-dimensional Flow MRI as a Marker for Risk Stratification of Gastroesophageal Varices in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis.

Radiology, 2019
Purpose To assess the feasibility of four-dimensional (4D) flow MRI as a noninvasive imaging marker for stratifying the risk of variceal bleeding in patients with liver cirrhosis. Materials and Methods This study recruited participants scheduled for both
U. Motosugi, A. Roldán-Alzate, P. Bannas, A. Said, S. Kelly, Ryan Zea, O. Wieben, S. Reeder   +7 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, Alisha Rajbhandari, Pradip Chaudhary, Kausal Sigdel   +3 more
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Current Approaches to the Treatment of Gastric Varices: Glue, Coil Application, TIPS, and BRTO

Medicina, 2019
Gastric varices are less common than esophageal varices, and their treatment is quite challenging. Gastric varix bleedings (GVB) occur less frequently than esophageal varix (EV) bleedings and represent 10to 30% of all variceal bleedings.
V. Goral, Nevin Yılmaz
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