Nonsurgical management of emergency hemorrhage from esophageal varices
β Scribed by Eugene R. Schiff
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 693 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-2313
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The management of esophageal variceal hemorrhage ranges from conservative to surgical modalities. Before introduction of liver transplantation as a potentially curative therapy of the underlying etiology, decompressive portosystemic shunt operations have been the mainstay of mostly palliative proced
The advent of more effective nonoperative therapies, mainly endoscopic variceal sclerosis, has decreased the need for emergency surgery for control of acute variceal hemorrhage. In centers where it is available, nonoperative portal decompression by transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunting (T