Combination endoscopic band ligation and sclerotherapy compared with endoscopic band ligation alone for the secondary prophylaxis of esophageal variceal hemorrhage: a meta-analysis.

Autor:	Karsan, Hetal A, Morton, Sally C, Shekelle, Paul G, Spiegel, Brennan M R, Suttorp, Marika J, Edelstein, Marc A, Gralnek, Ian M
Předmět:	ESOPHAGEAL varices GASTROINTESTINAL hemorrhage treatment COMPARATIVE studies SCLEROTHERAPY LIGATURE (Surgery) RESEARCH methodology MEDICAL cooperation META-analysis RESEARCH SYSTEMATIC reviews EVALUATION research TREATMENT effectiveness ENDOSCOPIC hemostasis THERAPEUTICS
Zdroj:	Digestive Diseases & Sciences; Feb2005, Vol. 50 Issue 2, p399-406, 8p
Abstrakt:	Endoscopic band ligation (EBL) is the community-accepted standard therapy for the secondary prophylaxis of esophageal variceal hemorrhage. Recent data indicate that combination EBL and sclerotherapy may be a more effective therapy than EBL alone. Yet existing data are conflicting. We therefore performed a meta-analysis to compare the efficacy and safety of EBL and sclerotherapy versus EBL alone for the secondary prophylaxis of esophageal variceal hemorrhage. We performed a systematic review of two computerized databases (MEDLINE and EMBASE) along with manual-searching of published abstracts to identify relevant citations without language restrictions from 1990 to 2002. Eight studies met explicit inclusion criteria. We performed meta-analysis of these studies to pool the relative risk for the following outcomes: esophageal variceal rebleeding, death, number of endoscopic sessions to achieve variceal obliteration, and therapeutic complications. There were no significant differences between EBL and sclerotherapy versus EBL alone in the risk of esophageal variceal rebleeding (RR = 1.05; 95% CI = 0.67-1.64; P = 0.83), death (RR = 0.99; 95% CI = 0.68-1.44; P = 0.96), or number of endoscopic sessions to variceal obliteration (RR = 0.23; 95% CI = 0.055-0.51; P = 0.11). However, the incidence of esophageal stricture formation was significantly higher in the EBL group than in the sclerotherapy group. There is no evidence that the addition of sclerotherapy to endoscopic band ligation changes clinically relevant outcomes (variceal rebleeding, death, time to variceal obliteration) in the secondary prophylaxis of esophageal variceal hemorrhage. Moreover, combination EBL and sclerotherapy had more esophageal stricture formation than EBL alone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze:	Complementary Index
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