Chylothorax as a complication of oesophageal sclerotherapy.

Broncho-oesophageal fistula: a late complication of endoscopic variceal sclerotherapy.

A case is reported of delayed broncho-oesophageal fistula presenting several weeks after fibreoptic injection sclerotherapy for oesophageal varices in a patient with chronic active hepatitis who eventually died from bronchopneumonia. Such serious complications of injection sclerotherapy should be kept in mind with the increasing popularity of this method of early treatment of bleeding oesophage...

Oesophageal rupture in the course of conservative treatment of bleeding oesophageal varices.

Fatal oesophageal rupture is described as a complication of the management of bleeding oesophageal varices with repeated sclerotherapy and tamponade using the Sengstaken-Blakemore tube. The importance of chest radiographs is stressed in the early detection and prevention of malposition of the Sengstaken-Blakemore tube, as inflation of the gastric balloon in the oesophagus can result in oesophag...

Pulmonary embolism after sclerotherapy treatment of bleeding varices.

We describe a case of pulmonary embolism after sclerosant injection for bleeding oesophageal varices. The patient was managed successfully with enoxaparin. Systemic embolization after sclerotherapy is rare and depends upon a number of factors including the amount of sclerosant agent used. The incidence of this complication could be as high as 6% which warrants careful post procedure monitoring ...

[A case of liver cirrhosis accompanied with chylothorax and chylous ascites after endoscopic sclerotherapy of esophageal varices].

Band Ligation or Sclerotherapy as Endoscopic Treatment for Oesophageal Varices in Schistosomotic Patients: Results of a Randomized Study

Endoscopic sclerotherapy and banding ligation are the two preferred methods to treat oesophageal variceal bleeding. There are many reports dealing with such treatment in cirrhotic patients but we do not know how good they are to treat varices secondary to other forms of portal hypertension. Schistosomiasis mansoni is the main cause of portal hypertension and oesophageal varices in Brazil. We pe...