Variceal Bleeding
A Study into the Characteristics and Outcome of Variceal Bleeding in a Tertiary Hospital in Southeast Asia
... A Study into the Characteristics and Outcome of Variceal Bleeding in a Tertiary Hospital in Southeast Asia ORIGINAL ARTICLE A Study into the Characteristics and Outcome of Variceal Bleeding in a Terti[.] ...
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Mesocaval Shunt Creation for Jejunal Variceal Bleeding with Chronic Portal Vein Thrombosis
... or variceal bleeding for as long as 18 ...GI bleeding at 9 months, mesocaval shunt remained patent up to 24 months, which is the longest follow-up period up to ...
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Restrictive versus Liberal Blood Transfusion Strategies in Egyptian Patients with Esophageal Variceal Bleeding
... Esophageal variceal bleeding is a major medical emergency and one of the most important indications for hos- pital ...but variceal bleeding does not occur until the HVPG increases above 12 ...
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PREDICTORS OF VARICEAL BLEEDING AFTER ESOPHAGEAL VARICES BAND LIGATION IN EGYPTIAN CIRRHOTIC PATIENTS
... Endoscopic variceal ligation (EVL) is the treatment of choice for acute variceal ...of bleeding from oesophageal ...post-interventional bleeding; the risk factors for this complication are ...
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Management of acute esophageal variceal bleeding by endoscopic sclerotherapy in technically difficult endoscopic band ligation cases—A population based cohort study
... actively bleeding at the time of endoscopy, this finding was made before the advent of octreotide as a recommended ...were bleeding profusely at the time of endoscopy ...acute variceal ...
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Prognostic Factors, Incidence and Management for Acute Variceal Bleeding in the Liver Transplantation Era
... the bleeding, to correct the portal hypertension and to restore the normal liver ...possible variceal bleeding complications ...with bleeding caused by varices cannot be submitted to a ...
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Splenic Artery Embolization for the Treatment of Gastric Variceal Bleeding Secondary to Splenic Vein Thrombosis Complicated by Necrotizing Pancreatitis: Report of a Case
... Gastric variceal bleeding is a life-threatening complication of splenic vein thrombosis, resulting from increased blood flow to short gastric ...and bleeding tendency. In the Warshaw operation, ...
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Outcome of patients undergoing early versus late endoscopic intervention for acute oesophageal variceal bleeding at Air Force Hospital, Egypt A population based cohort study
... with variceal bleeding were included, the severity of liver disease as assessed by the Child- Pugh score was comparable among early and late groups, the routine standards of care applied to the patients as ...
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Non Endoscopic Predictors of Variceal Bleeding in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis
... The MELD score (≥18) is a good predictor of short-term (6 weeks to 3 months) mortality among cirrhotic patients at first episode of bleeding from esopahgeal varices [37]. Measurement of the HVPG obtained within 48 ...
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Comparison of endoscopic variceal ligation and beta-blocker (carvedilol) plus nitrate for the primary prevention of variceal bleeding
... first variceal bleed, defined as hematemesis and/or melaena with endoscopic evidence of variceal bleeding or stigmata of recent hemorrhage and at least a 2 g/dL reduction in hemoglobin within 24 ...
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Guidelines Management of variceal bleeding: PSG guidelines 2006
... gastrointestinal bleeding presenting as haemetemesis with or without malena or ...gastrointestinal bleeding, hinges on prompt resuscitation, haemodynamic support, and correction of haemostatic dysfunction, ...
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Acute variceal bleeding in a patient with idiopathic myelofibrosis successfully treated with endoscopic variceal band ligation and chemotherapy: a case report
... In the fibrotic stage of IMF, bone marrow fibrosis results in an ineffective erythropoiesis, thus leading to extramedullary hematopoiesis mainly in the spleen and the liver. We attributed our patient ’ s elevated hepatic ...
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<p>Carvedilol vs endoscopic band ligation for the prevention of variceal bleeding: a meta-analysis</p>
... of variceal bleeding did not translate into decreased rate of variceal bleeding are as fol- lows: first, carvedilol is a potent portal hypotensive agent with multiple effects and these effects ...
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Antiviral therapy reduces rebleeding rate in patients with hepatitis B-related cirrhosis with acute variceal bleeding after endotherapy
... on variceal bleeding and its outcome [30, 31]; However, no research publication eluci- dated the effects of antiviral therapy on patients with HBV-related cirrhosis receiving endoscopic therapy after ...
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Original Article Serum-ascites albumin gradient: an independent predictor of esophageal variceal bleeding in cirrhosis patients with ascites
... Liver cirrhosis is defined as chronic liver dam- age caused by repeated and long-term effects of multiple etiologies. When progression of liver cirrhosis enters the decompensation stage, various complications occur, ...
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Effect of coexisting diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease on mortality of cirrhotic patients with esophageal variceal bleeding
... esophageal variceal bleeding (EVB) [6, ...increased bleeding tendency included uremic platelet dysfunction, use of antiplatelet agents, and anticoagulants [11, ...
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Surgical outcomes of distal splenorenal shunt or liver transplantation in treatment of schistosomal refractory variceal bleeding
... refractory variceal bleeding was defined as a single episode of clinically significant rebleeding from portal hypertensive sources (recurrent melena, hematemesis resulting in hospital admission, multiple ...
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Splenic irradiation induced gastric variceal bleeding in a primary splenic diffuse large B cell lymphoma patient: a rare complication successfully treated by splenectomy with short gastric vein ligation
... Primary splenic diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a rare clinical condition, which is generally treated by six to eight cycles of chemotherapy involving a combination of rituximab and the cyclophosphamide, ...
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Propranolol for prevention of recurrent variceal bleeding
... Pressure in the portal vein is normally between 5-10 mmHg which is only a few mmHg higher than in the inferior vena cava. Vascular resistance to portal flow is thus very low. Portal hypertension is the result of ...
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Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of carvedilol versus variceal band ligation in primary prevention of variceal bleeding in liver cirrhosis (CALIBRE trial)
... or variceal band ligation ...any variceal bleeding within 1 year of ...to variceal bleed, mortality, transplant-free survival, adverse events, complications of cirrhosis, health-related ...
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