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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Pubblicato in:World J Gastrointest Endosc
Autori principali: Krige, Jake, Jonas, Eduard, Kotze, Urda, Kloppers, Christo, Gandhi, Karan, Allam, Hisham, Bernon, Marc, Burmeister, Sean, Setshedi, Mashiko
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2020
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Observational Study
Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7579524/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33133373
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4253/wjge.v12.i10.365
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