Unpacking the challenge of gastric varices: A review on indication, timing and modality of therapy

Upper gastrointestinal bleeding from oesophageal or gastric varices is an important medical condition in patients with portal hypertension. Despite the emergence of a number of novel endoscopic and radiologic therapies for oesophagogastric varices, controversy exists regarding the indication, timing...

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Autores principales: Vaz, Karl, Efthymiou, Marios, Vaughan, Rhys, Testro, Adam G, Lew, Hin-Boon, Pu, Leonardo Zorron Cheng Tao, Chandran, Sujievvan
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Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8422918/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34552693
http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v13.i8.868
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description Upper gastrointestinal bleeding from oesophageal or gastric varices is an important medical condition in patients with portal hypertension. Despite the emergence of a number of novel endoscopic and radiologic therapies for oesophagogastric varices, controversy exists regarding the indication, timing and modality of therapy. The aim of this review is to provide a concise and practical evidence-based overview of these issues.
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spelling pubmed-84229182021-09-21 Unpacking the challenge of gastric varices: A review on indication, timing and modality of therapy Vaz, Karl Efthymiou, Marios Vaughan, Rhys Testro, Adam G Lew, Hin-Boon Pu, Leonardo Zorron Cheng Tao Chandran, Sujievvan World J Hepatol Minireviews Upper gastrointestinal bleeding from oesophageal or gastric varices is an important medical condition in patients with portal hypertension. Despite the emergence of a number of novel endoscopic and radiologic therapies for oesophagogastric varices, controversy exists regarding the indication, timing and modality of therapy. The aim of this review is to provide a concise and practical evidence-based overview of these issues. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2021-08-27 2021-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8422918/ /pubmed/34552693 http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v13.i8.868 Text en ©The Author(s) 2021. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial.
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Unpacking the challenge of gastric varices: A review on indication, timing and modality of therapy
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