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 ...

Variceal rebleeding frequently develops in patients with cirrhosis after an initial episode of acute variceal hemorrhage. The best prophylactic treatment for variceal rebleeding has not been clearly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Objective. Although higher hospital volume has been associated with better outcomes for many surgical procedures, this relationship does not appear to hold for most common medical diagnoses. We ...

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 ...

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 ...

In patients with cirrhosis and acute fundal variceal bleeding, the use of preemptive transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (p-TIPS) with a covered stent within 72 hours of initial bleeding ...

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 ...

Patients with cirrhosis are at risk for developing portal hypertension that can lead to the formation, dilation, and rupture of esophageal varices. The annual incidence of esophageal varices is ...

THE proper management of a patient with acute upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage depends upon the prompt localization of the source. In the experience at this hospital, about a third of the patients ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A hemostatic powder applied during an upper endoscopy as an early intervention was effective for treating acute ...