Ultrasonography-guided cyanoacrylate injection is more effective than direct endoscopic injection for treating bleeding in gastric varices with spontaneous shunts.

Beta blockers should be the first line of prevention against variceal bleeding in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension. While banding is similarly effective in reducing the incidence of ...

Treatments (NSBB, isosorbide mononitrate, carvedilol, variceal band ligation) were compared as monotherapy or as combination therapy with each other or versus placebo. For cirrhotic patients with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Blood transfusion did not significantly improve the prognosis of patients with digestive bleeding by esophageal ...

Acute oral ammonia tolerance test. After samples of arterial and venous blood were obtained a 3-gm. dose of ammonium chloride contained in starch capsules was administered by mouth. Forty-five minutes ...

Bleeding from gastric varices is relatively common and can be life threatening. The optimal treatment strategy for gastric variceal hemorrhage is controversial. Both interventional radiology and ...

In the present study, we were able to confirm several previous observations concerning variceal bleeding in cirrhotic patients, although there were some differences in the etiology of cirrhosis ...

Approximately half of patients with advanced liver disease have varicose veins in the esophagus and stomach, and a more than a fifth of them experience bleeding from these varices into the digestive ...

A hemostatic powder applied during an upper endoscopy as an early intervention was effective for treating acute variceal bleeding in patients with liver cirrhosis, according to research published in ...

Patients who developed upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding during a hospital stay experienced worse adverse outcomes than those admitted for upper GI bleeding alone, French researchers found in a ...