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- feature. Evidence of recent variceal hemorrhage includes necrosis and ulceration of the mucosa. Evidence of past variceal hemorrhage includes inflammation...
- used. Tranexamic acid may also be useful. Procedures (such as TIPS for variceal bleeding) may be used. Recurrent or refractory bleeding may lead to need...
- as initial preventative measures. In patients who have had a previous variceal bleed both treatments are recommended. Some evidence supports the addition...
- complications. Complications include ascites, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, variceal hemorrhage, hepatic encephalopathy, hepatorenal syndrome, and cardiomyopathy...
- are called varices. Varices are more likely to rupture at this point. Variceal rupture often leads to severe bleeding, which can be fatal. Caput medusae...
- suggests that endoscopic injection of cyanoacrylate, known as gastric variceal obliteration or GVO is superior to band ligation in preventing rebleeding...
- modern endoscopic techniques which can rapidly and definitively control variceal bleeding, Sengstaken–Blakemore tubes are rarely used at present. The device...
- heartburn, these methods are not sufficient to heal esophageal ulcers. Variceal bleeding may be treated through a variety of medications and interventions...
- endemic goitre in remote communities. It has an additional use in gastric variceal obliteration as a dilutant that does not affect polymerization of cyanoacrylate...
- 1973 as a nonshunting technique that achieved variceal bleeding hemostasis by interrupting the variceal blood flow along the gastroesophageal junction...