Background A 35-year-old woman with a past history of antiphospholipid syndrome and near-fatal vascular thrombosis was transferred to Glasgow Royal Infirmary, UK, for investigation of 'obscure' ...

Background. A 49-year-old woman with hepatitis C and peptic ulcer disease presented to the emergency department after an onset of sudden massive hematemesis. She had a history of alcohol abuse, but ...

GASTRIC varices are being seen increasingly often in the patient presenting acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage. This increased frequency is associated with a greater number of cirrhotic patients found ...

Two patients with the diagnosis of liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension related to hepatitis infection were admitted to Shanghai Ruijin hospital due to recurrent melena and hematemesis. Isolated ...

Gastric varices (GV) are an important complication of portal hypertension. As an almost atraumatic method, computed tomography (CT) angiography has been used widely to show the portal vein system.

A 51-year-old woman with esophageal varices secondary to decompensated cirrhosis presented to the emergency department with hematemesis. Her heart rate was 123 beats/min and her blood pressure was ...

A research team from China investigated the afferent and efferent veins of different types of gastric varices (GV) according to their location, with multidetector computed tomography portal venography ...

Changes clinical practice: Patients with portal hypertension and large gastric varices (>/=10mm size), either isolated or associated with esophageal varices, should undergo primary prophylaxis.

Endoscopic injection of N‑butyl‑2‑cyanoacrylate can obliterate gastric varices, whereas attempts at banding are likely to be unsuccessful for these varices. The following measures can be used to ...

The patient was given octreotide at the doses indicated because of the high suspicion of variceal bleeding. Intravenous ciprofloxacin was also administered to prevent bacterial infection. At endoscopy ...

Evidence suggests that this procedure works well and is safe in the short term. But, there is not enough long-term evidence about how well it works or how safe it is. So, it can only be done with ...

It is not clear whether these studies of gastric function in dogs are pertinent to patients with cirrhosis who have been subjected to shunting operations. Only two investigations concerning man have ...