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Treatment of Bleeding Gastric Varices by Endoscopic Cyanoacrylate Injection: A Developing-country Perspective

Introduction Gastric varices (GV) are less commonly seen but bleed more severely than esophageal varices (EV). Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS), alcohol injection, and N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate (NBCA) are generally used for GV bleed management. NBCA is usually injected endoscopical...

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Autores principales: Mansoor-Ul-Haq, Muhammad, Latif, Abdul, Asad, Mansoor, Aziz Memon, Farooque
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7089629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32226664
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7062