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 ...

Bleeding from gastric varices is relatively common and can be life threatening. The optimal treatment strategy for gastric variceal hemorrhage is controversial. Both interventional radiology and ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

(A) Compression. Pancreatic cysts compress the splenic vein, increasing venous flow in the gastric veins and forming varices. Other causes of compression include pancreatic NET, lymphoma, SAA, ...