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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

March 26, 2004 - Variceal ligation is as safe and effective as nadolol treatment for prevention of first variceal bleeding in patients with cirrhosis, according to a study from the March issue of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Esophageal varices, resulting from portal hypertension, are a significant complication of liver cirrhosis. As varices become larger, there is increased risk of rupture with upper gastrointestinal ...

Oesophageal varices are enlarged veins within the lower oesophagus and the oesophagogastric junction which develop in patients with portal hypertension, often as a result of cirrhosis. Bleeding from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...