The North Italian Endoscopic Club for the Study and Treatment of Esophageal Varices. (1988) Prediction of the first variceal hemorrhage in patients with cirrhosis of the liver and esophageal varices. A Prospective Multicenter Study. The New England Journal of Medicine 319,983-989. We conducted a prospective study of 321 patients with cirrhosis of the liver and esophageal varices with no history...

OBJECTIVE: Optimal endoscopic treatment of gastric varices is still not standardized nowadays. Actively bleeding varices may prohibit a successful endoscopic injection therapy of Histoacryl® (N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate). Since 2006, we have treated gastric varices by standardized endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) guided Histoacryl injection therapy without severe adverse events. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Endoscopy as a screening modality for esophageal varices is becoming difficult because of its invasiveness, cost, and increased burden of liver cirrhosis. This study aims to determine the diagnostic accuracy of simple and noninvasive markers in detecting esophageal varices. MATERIALS AND METHODS Four variables (platelet count, portal vein diameter, splenic diameter, and ratio ...

Variceal bleeding is the most life-threating complication in liver cirrhosis. The aim of this study was to ascertain the risk factors of bleeding from esophageal varices.52 patients with liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension were included in prospective study. We analyzed the severity of liver dysfunction according to Child's classification, coagulation parameters, and endoscopic parameters: ...

INTRODUCTION Standard endoscopic mucosal resection or endoscopic submucosal dissection is a procedure for patients with minute cancers, complicated with esophageal varices that puts them at high risk of bleeding. CASE PRESENTATION We present the case of a 77-year-old Japanese man with alcoholic cirrhosis who underwent a routine endoscopy examination as a screening procedure for esophageal var...

PURPOSE Esophageal varices are a dangerous complication of liver cirrhosis. The development of cost effective, noninvasive means for prediction of large esophageal varices could reduce the use of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in variceal screening and also provide an alternative way to confirm the results of conventional endoscopic diagnosis. Previously proposed predictive models are neither...

This retrospective study analysed the case records of 200 patients in the Department of Gastroenterology, Singapore General Hospital from February 2000 to January 2001 who had liver cirrhosis and underwent gastroscopy for the detection of varices. The aim of this study was to determine any relationship between leucopenia, thrombocytopenia and the occurrence of esophageal varices in a cirrhotic ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) with sodium tetradecyl sulfate (STS) liquid sclerotherapy of gastric varices. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between February 2012 and August 2014, STS liquid sclerotherapy was performed in 17 consecutive patients (male:female = 8:9; mean age 58.6 years, range 44-86 years) with gastric varices....

INTRODUCTION Long-term outcome of patients after band ligation have been poorly defined. Therefore, we conducted a long-term follow-up study to delineate the outcome of ligation in patients with portal hypertension in the Hassan II university hospital, Fes, Morocco. METHODS Over 118 months patients treated by endoscopic variceal ligation were received regular follow- up and detailed clinical ...

BACKGROUND Endoscopic sclerotherapy is an absolute indication for treating esophageal varices. Re-bleeding is common during the treatment period, before all varices become eradicated. AIM To compare two techniques of endoscopic esophageal varices eradication: sclerotherapy with absolute alcohol and banding ligation. PATIENTS AND METHOD Forty-six patients with liver cirrhosis and esophageal ...