Risk factors for hemorrhage from gastric fundal varices

✍ Scribed by T Kim; H Shijo; H Kokawa; H Tokumitsu; K Kubara; K Ota; N Akiyoshi; T Iida; M Yokoyama; M Okumura

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 263 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0270-9139
• DOI: 10.1002/hep.510250209

✦ Synopsis

prospective trials. 8,9 However, the incidence of hemorrhage The incidence and the risk factors of hemorrhage from from FV has not been fully investigated. 3,7 Although several gastric fundal varices (FV) have not been fully evaluauthors have mentioned the incidence of hemorrhage from ated. We therefore conducted a retrospective and pro-FV, 3,7 to our knowledge, there has been no prospective study spective study to define the incidence and risk factors documenting the cumulative risk for FV hemorrhage in a for such episodes. We investigated 132 patients with cirlarge number of patients. The aim of this study was to define rhosis and gastric FV. Of these 132 patients, 15 patients the incidence and the risk factors for hemorrhage from FV. had hemorrhagic FV at the time of enrollment. The clinical characteristics were compared between these pa-PATIENTS AND METHODS tients and those without a first hemorrhage from FV. In