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Clinicopathological Features and Treatment of Ectopic Varices with Portal Hypertension

Bleeding from ectopic varices, which is rare in patients with portal hypertension, is generally massive and life-threatening. Forty-three patients were hospitalized in our ward for gastrointestinal bleeding from ectopic varices. The frequency of ectopic varices was 43/1218 (3.5%) among portal hypert...

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Autores principales: Sato, Takahiro, Akaike, Jun, Toyota, Jouji, Karino, Yoshiyasu, Ohmura, Takumi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21994879
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/960720
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author Sato, Takahiro
Akaike, Jun
Toyota, Jouji
Karino, Yoshiyasu
Ohmura, Takumi
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Akaike, Jun
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description Bleeding from ectopic varices, which is rare in patients with portal hypertension, is generally massive and life-threatening. Forty-three patients were hospitalized in our ward for gastrointestinal bleeding from ectopic varices. The frequency of ectopic varices was 43/1218 (3.5%) among portal hypertensive patients in our ward. The locations of the ectopic varices were rectal in thirty-two, duodenal in three, intestinal in two, vesical in three, stomal in one, and colonic in two patients. Endoscopic or interventional radiologic treatment was performed successfully for ectopic varices. Hemorrhage from ectopic varices should be kept in mind in patients with portal hypertension presenting with lower gastrointestinal bleeding.
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spelling pubmed-31708572011-10-12 Clinicopathological Features and Treatment of Ectopic Varices with Portal Hypertension Sato, Takahiro Akaike, Jun Toyota, Jouji Karino, Yoshiyasu Ohmura, Takumi Int J Hepatol Review Article Bleeding from ectopic varices, which is rare in patients with portal hypertension, is generally massive and life-threatening. Forty-three patients were hospitalized in our ward for gastrointestinal bleeding from ectopic varices. The frequency of ectopic varices was 43/1218 (3.5%) among portal hypertensive patients in our ward. The locations of the ectopic varices were rectal in thirty-two, duodenal in three, intestinal in two, vesical in three, stomal in one, and colonic in two patients. Endoscopic or interventional radiologic treatment was performed successfully for ectopic varices. Hemorrhage from ectopic varices should be kept in mind in patients with portal hypertension presenting with lower gastrointestinal bleeding. SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2011 2011-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3170857/ /pubmed/21994879 http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/960720 Text en Copyright © 2011 Takahiro Sato et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sato, Takahiro
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Toyota, Jouji
Karino, Yoshiyasu
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Clinicopathological Features and Treatment of Ectopic Varices with Portal Hypertension
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title_full Clinicopathological Features and Treatment of Ectopic Varices with Portal Hypertension
title_fullStr Clinicopathological Features and Treatment of Ectopic Varices with Portal Hypertension
title_full_unstemmed Clinicopathological Features and Treatment of Ectopic Varices with Portal Hypertension
title_short Clinicopathological Features and Treatment of Ectopic Varices with Portal Hypertension
title_sort clinicopathological features and treatment of ectopic varices with portal hypertension
topic Review Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21994879
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/960720
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