Gastroesophageal variceal hemorrhage, a major complication of portal hypertension
resulting from cirrhosis, accounts for 10 to 30 percent of all cases of bleeding from the upper …

Acute gastrointestinal bleeding remains a common cause of hospitalization despite
advances in diagnosis and therapy. Patient morbidity and mortality in gastrointestinal …

Portal hypertension is a major complication of chronic liver disease. Its main clinical
consequence, bleeding from ruptured esophagogastric varices, represents a dramatic …

Background Transjugular placement of an intrahepatic stent is a new technique to establish
a portosystemic shunt for treatment of portal hypertension. A puncture needle is advanced in …

These guidelines on the management of variceal haemorrhage were commissioned by the
British Society of Gastroenterology under the auspices of the Liver Section. They were …

PURPOSE: To evaluate the long-term results of balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous
obliteration (B-RTO) for the treatment of gastric varices (GV) and hepatic encephalopathy …

Background &Aims: The optimal emergency treatment for gastric fundal variceal bleeding is
still unclear. In this study, the efficacy of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent/shunt …

OBJECTIVE. Our aim was to evaluate the long-term clinical results after balloon-occluded
retrograde transvenous obliteration (B-RTO) for gastric varices with spontaneous …

Background: This article discusses the largest and longest experience reported to date of
the use of portal-systemic shunt (PSS) to treat recurrent bleeding from esophagogastric …

The optimal management of ruptured gastric varices in patients with cirrhosis has not been
codified yet. The present study reports the use of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic …