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Defining the advantages and exposing the limitations of endoscopic variceal ligation in controlling acute bleeding and achieving complete variceal eradication
BACKGROUND: Bleeding esophageal varices (BEV) is a potentially life-threatening complication in patients with portal hypertension with mortality rates as high as 25% within six weeks of the index variceal bleed. After control of the initial bleeding episode patients should enter a long-term surveill...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Baishideng Publishing Group Inc
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7579524/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33133373 http://dx.doi.org/10.4253/wjge.v12.i10.365 |