INTRODUCTION Endoscopic surveilance of esophageal varices in patients with liver cirrhosis is expensive for the health system and uncomfortable for the patients. Recently, non-invasive ultrasound-based parameters seem to offer valuable informations about the status of esophaeal varices and thus challenge the need for repetitive endoscopic monitoring. MATERIAL AND METHOD We have performed a sy...

The progression of liver fibrosis and the presence portal hypertension are two key points in follow-up severity assessment patients with chronic disease. Objective evaluation such aspects has proven to be difficult due lack reproducible standardized non-invasive methods. Therefore, aim this study was evaluate whether spleen stiffness (SS) can rule out high-risk varices (HRVs) non-alcoholic fatt...

INTENDED USE HemaPrompt FG is a guaiac-based in-vitro slide method for the qualitative detection of occult blood in feces and gastric aspirate or vomitus by medical professionals only. It is not designed to be sent home with the patient for self-application. For fecal testing, it is a useful aid in the diagnosis of a number of gastro-intestinal disorders, and is recommended for use in 1) routin...

The esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) with all its hazards remains the gold standard screening tool for esophageal varices. Noninvasive tools have been proposed and studied to replace the EGD. Platelet count (PC)/spleen diameter (SD) ratio as a noninvasive tool for predicting the presence of esophageal varices was proposed and studied in many previous studies. How to cite this article El-Sherb...

Patients with Barrett's esophagus (BE) and cirrhosis who develop high-grade dysplasia (HGD) or adenocarcinoma in the setting of esophageal varices present a unique therapeutic dilemma. There is limited literature regarding the optimal management of varices prior to invasive procedures or surgery involving the distal esophagus. We present a case of variceal decompression with a transjugular intr...

The Veterans Affairs Cooperative Variceal Sclerotherapy Group. (1991) Prophylactic sclerotherapy for esophageal varices in men with alcoholic liver disease. The New England Journal of Medicine; 324: 1779-1784. Background. Sclerotherapy is an effective treatment for bleeding esophageal varices in patients with alcoholic liver disease. It has also been suggested that sclerotherapy might be effect...

Esophageal varices is one of the most important comorbidity related liver cirrhosis, patients usually presented with hematemesis, melena, or both, ultimately 20% is the mortality during the first attack, hence we aimed to investigate the incidence of such esophageal varices related chronic Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in randomized Egyptian population.One thousand eighteen Egyptian patients, aged be...

OBJECTIVE To develop non-invasive laboratory variables for the identification of esophageal varices in patients with cirrhosis at Digestive Disease Center, Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad. PATIENTS AND METHODS All patients with chronic viral hepatitis who presented to the Gastroenterology Division between July 2002 to July 2003 were enrolled in the study. All patients with a diagnosis...

Gastric varices that arise secondary to the splenic vein occlusion can result in gastrointestinal hemorrhaging. Endoscopic color Doppler ultrasonography (ECDUS) was performed in 16 patients with gastric varices secondary to splenic vein occlusion. This study retrospectively evaluated the role of ECDUS in the diagnosis of gastric varices secondary to splenic vein occlusion. Thirteen patients had...