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Variceal Bleeding Prophylaxis: Variceal Banding or Propranolol [PDF]

HPB Surgery, 2000
Background and Methods: We compared propranolol therapy and endoscopic ligation for the primary prevention of bleeding from esophageal varices. This prospective, controlled trial included consecutive eligible patients who had large varices (＞ 5mm in diameter) that were at high risk for bleeding. The patients were assigned to either propranolol therapy,
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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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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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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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Therapeutic Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in Pediatric Gastroenterology

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022
This paper seeks to give a broad overview of pediatric upper gastrointestinal (GI) pathologies that we are now able to treat endoscopically, acquired or congenital, and we hope this delivers the reader an impression of what is increasingly available to ...
Dominique Schluckebier, Nadeem Ahmad Afzal, Mike Thomson   +2 more
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Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Moynihan's Hump, Varices of Paracholedochal Plexuses With Superficial Course of Inferior Vena Cava at Calot's Triangle: Case Report [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
During laparoscopic cholecystectomy, intraoperative findings of varices of paracholedochal plexuses, superficially placed portal vein and Moynihan's hump observed. The common bile duct placed on the inferior vena cava which was superficially placed at Calot's triangle.
Wani I.
europepmc   +2 more sources

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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Endolaser venoso: estudo série de casos Venous endolaser: a case series report

Jornal Vascular Brasileiro, 2012
OBJETIVOS: Relatar nossa experiência de 14 meses, comparando o uso do laser 980 nm com fibra axial com o laser 1.470 nm com fibra radial. MÉTODOS: Foram revisados prontuários de 215 pacientes e comparados resultados de utilização do laser diodo 980 nm ...
Karina Silvestri Bueno, Daiane Tais Schlindwein Albernaz, Luiz Fernando Lima Albernaz, Fernanda Rita Machado Zignani   +3 more
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Correlation between serum liver fibrosis markers and early gastroesophageal varices among patients with compensated liver cirrhosis: a cross-sectional analysis

BMC Gastroenterology, 2022
Background and aim Portal hypertension is a common complication of chronic liver diseases responsible for most liver cirrhosis consequences. In patients with portal hypertension, oesophagogastric variceal bleeding is a leading cause of death.
Ling Mei, Ying Ma, Lili Zhao, Qingling Chen, Li Zhou, Hang Yang, Jie Liu, Jia Li   +7 more
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A Feedback Loop Between Fatty Acid Metabolism and Epigenetics in Clear Cell Renal Carcinoma

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The current study has profiled the landscape of active enhancers in ccRCC and identified FABP5 as an oncogene. FABP5 is essential for the lipid droplet formation driven by HIFs and critical for H3K27ac and enhancer activity. The study has discovered the function of a feedback loop between epigenetics and lipid metabolism regulated by FABP5 in ccRCC ...
Zhou Ye, Qi‐Xin Hu, Ming‐Liang Wei, Ji‐Dong Chen, Jia Shi, Ning‐Rong Yang, Lu Jiang, Jian Chen, Zhi‐Yuan Chen, Wei‐Min Yu, Yu Xiao, Kai‐Yu Qian, Zilin Xu, Zhong Wang, Wen‐Lu Qi, Xin‐Yi Xiao, Yu‐Yu Duan, Yong Xiao, Lian‐Yun Li, Lin‐Gao Ju, Ming‐Kai Chen, Min Wu   +21 more
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