BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Symmers periportal fibrosis secondary to schistosomiasis is a common cause of portal hypertension worldwide. Data on the prevalence of gastric varices and portal hypertensive gastropathy in this group of patients with portal hypertension is relatively scarce. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of gastric varices and portal hypertensive gastropathy in ...

UNLABELLED  Background. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with portal hypertension secondary to schistosomiasis mansoni. AIM To evaluate the efficacy of combined surgery and sclerotherapy versus endoscopic treatment alone in the prophylaxis of esophageal variceal rebleeding due to portal hypertension in schistosomiasis. MATERIAL AND METH...

CONTEXT Band ligation (BL) is the most appropriate endoscopic treatment for acute bleeding or prophylaxis of esophageal variceal bleeding. Sclerotherapy with N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate (CY) can be an alternative for patients with advanced liver disease. Bacteremia is an infrequent complication after BL while the bacteremia rate following treatment with CY for esophageal varices remains unknown. ...

BACKGROUND Esophageal varices-related GI bleeding occurs frequently and early in life in children with biliary atresia and it may be life threatening. OBJECTIVE We report the results of prophylactic sclerotherapy in 13 infants with biliary atresia and large varices. PATIENTS Mean age was 13 months, mean weight was 8.2 kg, mean total serum bilirubin was 258 mumol/L, and mean prothrombin time...

Aim. To analyze the results of minimally invasive techniques to prevent and treat gastroesophageal bleeding in patients with cirrhosis. Materials methods. The study included 997 liver cirrhosis: Child-Pugh class A – 21.7%; B 48.8%; C 29.5%. Esophageal varices Grades III–IV were diagnosed 95.5% patients, while gastric observed 17.4% patients. following methods used: endoscopic ligation, scleroth...

Introduction: Variceal bleeding from esophageal varices has high morbidity and mortality. There are invasive non methods by which risk of can be predicted. Upper Gastro-intestinal endoscopy is invasive, uncomfortable expensive procedure though being the gold standard to screen Esophageal Varices (EV).
 Aims: To know role non-invasive markers for prediction variceal bleed with liver cirrhos...

At least two thirds of cirrhotic patients develop esophageal varices during their lifetime. Severe upper gastrointestinal (UGI) bleeding as a complication of portal hypertension develops in about 30%-40% of cirrhotics. Despite significant improvements in the early diagnosis and treatment of esophagogastric variceal hemorrhage, the mortality rate of first variceal hemorrhage remains high (20%-35...

A 43-year-old male with alcoholic cirrhosis underwent EGD for hematemesis which revealed bleeding, grade II, lower esophageal varices that were endoscopically ligated with 6 bands. All the bands remained attached to varices at the completion of EGD. Despite apparent initial hemostasis, balloon tamponade was performed one hour later for suspected continued bleeding. Due to suspected continuing b...

It is known that upper gastrointestinal bleeding has many causes, esophageal and gastric lesions being the most frequent. Esophageal varices, the most common esophageal disease involved in the appearance of gastrointestinal bleeding, are due to portal hypertension, which is generated by different causes, including portal cavernoma [1,2]. It is also known that portal cavernoma can have many caus...

The rate of rebleeding of esophageal varices remains high after cessation of acute esophageal variceal hemorrhage. Many measures have been developed to prevent the occurrence of rebleeding. When considering their effectiveness in reduction of rebleeding, the associated complications cannot be neglected. Due to unavoidable high incidence of complications, shunt surgery and endoscopic injection s...