Objective This randomised trial aimed to address whether endoscopic variceal ligation (EVL) or propranolol (PPL) is more effective at preventing initial oesophageal variceal bleeding (EVB) in patients ...

Methods. The study was conducted with a retrospective cohort of 304 patients with liver cirrhosis and esophageal varices who were newly diagnosed at our department (Korea University Anam Hospital ...

During the study period January 1995–May 2003, 216 patients suffered an acute esophageal variceal hemorrhage and underwent emergent EVL treatment with follow-up EVL to obliterate varices ...

Finally, in a subgroup analysis of only patients who developed esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, after adjustments for age at diagnosis and sex, patients with prior esophageal Candida infection ...

Overexpression of sialylated glycoprotein is a stage-specific process and is regarded as a common manifestation of tumor progression. Accurate quantification of protein-specific sialylation on ...