Sclerotherapy versus banding in the treatment of variceal bleeding
| Autor: | Emmet B. Keeffe, Edward A. Slosberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Variceal bleeding Hepatology Combination therapy business.industry First line medicine.medical_treatment Esophageal and Gastric Varices Surgery Treatment Outcome Endoscopic sclerotherapy Acute Disease Sclerotherapy Recurrent bleeding Medicine Humans Radiology Esophagoscopy business Varices Ligation Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage |
| Zdroj: | Clinics in liver disease. 1(1) |
| ISSN: | 1089-3261 |
| Popis: | Endoscopic sclerotherapy has been the mainstay in the management of esophageal variceal bleeding to control acute bleeding and decrease recurrent bleeding. Endoscopic variceal ligation is a new technique that is equally effective in the control of acute bleeding but achieves obliteration of varices in fewer treatment sessions with presumably less cost, results in a lower rebleeding rate, has fewer complications, and is associated with reduced mortality. Combination therapy with both endoscopic variceal ligation and endoscopic sclerotherapy appears to have no clear advantage over variceal ligation alone. On the basis of the results of a number of trials comparing sclerotherapy with band ligation, endoscopic variceal ligation has evolved to be the preferred first line modality for the endoscopic treatment of variceal bleeding. |
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