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' ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN FRANCISCO — Researchers from Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia identified risk factors for ...

Maria Mela, MD, MRCP, Ulrich Thalheimer, MD, Andrew Burroughs, MB, ChB, FRCP(Hon) All of the trials on TIPS and surgical shunts discussed above include a certain number of patients with gastric ...

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 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 ...

Balloon tamponade with a Linton-Nachlas or Sengstaken-Blakemore tube can be a bridge to endoscopic therapy in massive variceal hemorrhage. Care should be taken to prevent insufflation of the gastric ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . LAS VEGAS – Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration ranked highest as best intervention for ...

Evidence-based recommendations on transvenous obliteration for gastric varices. This involves inserting a tube with a tiny balloon on the end into a vein in the thigh or neck. The tube is then passed ...

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.