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Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy Is Associated With Reduction of Early Bleeding Risk After Prophylactic Endoscopic Variceal Band Ligation: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Endoscopic variceal band ligation (EVL) is an effective procedure to control and prevent variceal bleeding in patients with liver cirrhosis, but it can be complicated by bleeding from post-EVL ulcers. Several studies have reported that proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) decrease the size of post-EVL ulce...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Health
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4779029/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26937932 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000002903 |