All of the trials on TIPS and surgical shunts discussed above include a certain number of patients with gastric varices in their study population, and they report similar results of treatment ...

Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding is a common clinical scenario. In the upper gastrointestinal tract, gastric varices can be frequently overlooked on endoscopy, particularly if not suspected or volume ...

Last but not least, the occult or overt blood loss from esophageal and gastric varices and the intestinal lumen due to ulcerations or portal enteropathy are some of the main reasons for protein loss.

Gastric variceal hemorrhage is a serious consequence of end-stage liver disease, which is associated with high morbidity and mortality. 1 The majority of patients with cirrhosis develop varices ...

The optimum treatment of gastric varices has still to be defined. Lesser curve gastric varices may be treated by injection sclerotherapy, but this has a limited role in the treatment of fundal gastric ...

These structures exert pressure on the splenic vein, obstructing blood flow and increasing venous pressure, leading to ...

Over the last few years, an alternative to the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedure has emerged—balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) of gastric varices ...

Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) has been the main alternative to treating bleeding related to esophageal or gastric varices in the context of portal hypertension. Recently, as a ...

Introduction The optimal therapy for gastric variceal bleeding remains unclear. Endoscopic Human Thrombin injection appears a technically simple and efficacious alternative to cyanoacrylate with fewer ...

probable efficacy for prevention of gastric variceal bleeding, a better safety profile and easier administration. Moreover, data are emerging that nonselective β-blockers may have other ...