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 ...

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 ...

Varices are dilated veins. Gastric varices form in around 20% of people with portal hypertension. Portal hypertension can happen in cirrhosis or in people without cirrhosis who develop thrombosis of ...

A 45-year-old man with jaundice, increased abdominal girth, and leg swelling presented for evaluation. The patient had a history of heavy alcohol use but no previous evidence of liver disease or ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina have revealed the need to clarify current treatment guidelines for octreotide therapy following an esophageal variceal hemorrhage in a recent ...

A Sengstaken-Blakemore tube is a tube used in emergency medicine to stop bleeding in your stomach or esophagus. The technique used to place the tube is called balloon tamponade. The ...

Evidence on the safety and efficacy of transvenous obliteration of gastric varices is adequate in the short term but limited in the long term. Therefore, this procedure should only be used with ...