Injection sclerotherapy for the long-term management of variceal bleeding
โ Scribed by David Westaby; Roger Williams
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 660 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-2313
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Injection sclerotherapy remains the most widely used long-term management for patients after an esophageal variceal bleed. Sclerotherapy treatments should be repeated weekly until the varices are eradicated. Follow-up endoscopy every 6 to 12 months is required for life. Whenever varices recur, furth
This trial was carried out to assess the value of propranolol for the prevention of recurrent variceal bleeding in patients with well-compensated cirrhosis. We also compared propranolol therapy to long-term injection sclerotherapy. One hundred and eight patients, in whom the original variceal hemorr
Abstract Acute injection sclerotherapy has been used in Belfast for 25 years and the results are reviewed. During this period 264 patients had injection sclerotherapy for acute bleeding from oesophageal varices during 396 admissions; a rigid oesophagoscope was used and 447 injections were performed.