Esophageal varices are veins in the esophagus (throat) that can burst and cause massive bleeding. Read about this medical emergency. Skip to content. ... Esophageal variceal band ligation interval and ...

Gastric varices occur in about half the total number of patients with cirrhosis. It is the most common reason for bleeding in upper gastrointestinal tract with high portal blood pressure and it ...

Shabbir, W., Namoos, K., Aslam, M. and Hameed, M.A. (2023) Frequency of Esophageal Varices in Cirrhotic Patients Presenting with New Onset Ascites. Rawal Medical Journal, ... (63.3%) and ligation of ...

Esophageal variceal ligation (EVL) plus propranolol is a noninferior treatment to EVL plus long-term propranolol for esophageal variceal bleeding. Endoscopic variceal ligation (EVL) plus propranolol ...

Esophageal variceal ligation plus sclerotherapy vs. ligation alone for the treatment of esophageal varices Xiaofen Yue 1,2,† Zeyu Wang 1,† Jianbiao Li 3,† Xiaoling Guo 2 Xiehua Zhang 4 Shengnan Li 1,2 ...

They conducted a record review using a retrospective methodology on patients diagnosed with esophageal varices and treated with endoscopic hemostasis by band ligation (BL) at our facility between 2015 ...