Cost effectiveness of preventing variceal hemorrhage
โ Scribed by Anthony B. Post
- Book ID
- 111722314
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 39 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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Esophageal variceal hemorrhage (EVH) is a serious and expensive sequela of chronic liver disease, leading to increased utilization of resources. Today, endoscopic sclerotherapy (ES) and endoscopic ligation (EL) are the accepted, community standards of endoscopic treatment of patients with EVH. Howev
Although both โค-blockade (BB) and endoscopic variceal ligation (EVL) are used for primary prevention of variceal bleeding (VB) in patients with cirrhosis with moderate to large esophageal varices (EVs), the more cost-effective option is uncertain. We created a Markov decision model to compare BB and