Variceal hemorrhage
Factors impacting physicians’ decisions to prevent variceal hemorrhage
... prevention of variceal hemorrhage. Choice format and analyses used Best-Worst scaling (BWS). BWS is a choice task which was developed as an alternative to rat- ing scales in order to obtain respondents’ ...
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Original Article Sandwich transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent-shunt in esophageal variceal hemorrhage at end stage of hepatocellular carcinoma with wide portal vein embolism
... Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent- shunt (TIPSS) is an effective treatment method for esophageal variceal hemorrhage caused by portal hypertension [1]. It has been demon- strated that, compared ...
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Prediction of Early Rebleeding and Mortality after Acute Esophageal Variceal Hemorrhage among Yemeni Patients in Major Hospitals—Sana’a
... and specificity was chosen as a useful threshold to identify the patients with high risk of death within 6 weeks. The current study found that MELD score of 19 point had the best sensitivity and specificity for ...
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Acute Variceal Hemorrhage in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis: Weekend versus Weekday Admissions
... Purpose: Little is known about the impact of weekend admission on acute variceal hemorrhage (AVH). Thus, we investigated whether day of admission due to AVH influenced in-hospital mortality. Materials and ...
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ENDOSCOPIC VARICEAL LIGATION VERSUS ENDOSCOPIC INJECTION SCLEROTHERAPY FOR MANAGEMENT OF ESOPHAGEAL VARICEAL HEMORRHAGE: A META ANALYSIS
... 8. Augustin, S.; Muntaner, L.; Altamirano, J. T.; González, A.; Saperas, E.; Dot, J.; Abu– Suboh, M.; Armengol, J. R.; Malagelada, J. R.; Esteban, R.; et al. Predicting Early Mortality After Acute Variceal ...
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Original Article Portal vein thrombosis can aggravate esophageal variceal bleeding after endoscopic variceal ligation
... of variceal hemorrhage, either to prevent first bleeding in patients with severe varices or to prevent rebleeding is very important [3, ...Endoscopic variceal ligation (EVL) can enhance the control ...
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Non Endoscopic Predictors of Variceal Bleeding in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis
... be more cost-effective when only high risk patients are routinely screened for the presence of varices so as to reduce the procedure cost and increasing burden of endoscopy units. There are factors that predict risk for ...
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Propranolol for prevention of recurrent variceal bleeding
... hemodynamics were measured before and after the administration of propranolol or placebo. Only 6% of patients were in the Child’s C category. There was a significant difference in the occurrence of variceal ...
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A Study on Natural History of Variceal Bleed in an Era of Sclerotherapy.
... endoscopy.(13) Variceal hemorrhage occurs at a rate of 5%–15% per year and the most important predictor of hemorrhage is the size of varices, with the highest risk of first hemorrhage (15% per ...
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Review Article Endoscopic variceal ligation vs pharmacotherapy in the influencing of mortality and rebleeding rate on secondary prevention of esophageal variceal bleeding: a meta-analysis
... endoscopic variceal ligation (EVL), pharmacotherapy with beta-blockers and/or isosorbide mononitrate (ISMN) ...esophageal variceal hemorrhage re- mains a significant problem despite therapy using ...
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Emergency endoscopic variceal ligation following variceal rupture in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma and portal vein tumor thrombosis: a retrospective study
... for variceal bleeding in- clude medical treatment with vasoactive drugs, balloon tamponade, placement of fully covered self-expanding metallic stents [31], transjugular intrahepatic portosyste- mic shunts [32], ...
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Original Article Endoscopic variceal ligation with multi-band technique for treating upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage
... Endoscopy examination should be undertaken immediately after resuscitation in unstable patients and endoscopic EVL should be used within 24 hours in bleeding patients [2]. The examination provides direct visualization of ...
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Determinants of survival and the effect of portosystemic shunting in patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome
... splenomegaly, variceal hemorrhage, hepatic encephalopathy, myelopro- liferative disorders, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobin- uria, site of outflow obstruction (hepatic veins, vena cava inferior, or ...
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Abulhamail
... that variceal bleeding can constitute about 14% of total upper gastrointestinal bleeding ...with variceal bleeding. Variceal bleeding is usually severe and associated with significant morbidity and ...
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The endoscopic ultrasound probe findings in prediction of esophageal variceal recurrence after endoscopic variceal eradication therapies in cirrhotic patients: a cohort prospective study
... esophageal-gastric variceal bleeding (EVB) is consid- ered as one of major fatal complications in patients with hepatic cirrhosis and portal hypertension [1, ...scopic variceal ligation (EVL), endoscopic ...
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Survival time in severe hemorrhagic shock after perioperative hemodilution is longer with PEG conjugated human serum albumin than with HES 130/0 4: a microvascular perspective
... Methods Experiments were performed using the hamster skinfold window preparation. Human serum albumin that was surface decorated with PEG was compared with Voluven 6% (Fresenius Kabi, Austria; a starch solution that is ...
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Intrapapillary hemorrhage with concurrent peripapillary and vitreous hemorrhage in two healthy young patients
... Intrapapillary hemorrhage with adjacent peripapillary sub- retinal hemorrhage occurs most commonly in young healthy patients with myopic eyes, but the resultant hem- orrhages spontaneously resolve without ...
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Guidelines Management of variceal bleeding: PSG guidelines 2006
... 1) Resuscitation of the patient: The essential step in the management of variceal bleeding is to evaluate the patient haemodynamically. If in shock, basic ABC (passing Airway, ensuring good Breathing, and ...
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Periventricular-Intraventricular Hemorrhage Sonographic Localization, Phenobarbital, and Motor Abnormalities in Low Birth Weight Infants
... The localizing value of hemorrhage to specific motor abnormalities, outcome differences between unilateral and bilateral location of hemorrhage, and the influence of ventriculomegaly on [r] ...
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THE RISK OF POST PARTUM HEMORRHAGE AFTER CESAREAN SECTION WITH GENERAL VERSUS SPINAL/EPIDURAL ANAESTHESIA
... Our results showed that there was no statistical significant difference between patients who received general anesthesia and patients who received spinal anesthesia in age, parity and as regard the indication of cesarean ...
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