Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration as adjunctive treatment for gastric fundal varices: Case report

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 156-158

  Izumiya, Takashi ^b   Matsumoto, Akio ^a   Nomura, Toshiyuki ^b   Itabashi, Tsukasa ^b  

^a TAKEDA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Hokusetsu Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOACRYLATE; IOPAMIDOL; MONOETHANOLAMINE OLEATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON OCCLUDED RETROGRADE TRANSVENOUS OBLITERATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MELENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH FUNDUS; STOMACH VARICES; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BALLOON OCCLUSION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0345742747     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(03)02233-8     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Sarin SK, Jain AK, Jain M, Gupta R. A randomized controlled trial of cyanoacrylate versus alcohol injection in patients with isolated fundic varices. Am J Gastroenterol 2002;97:1010-5.
2. Sarin SK, Kumar A. Gastric varices: profile, classification, and management. Am J Gastroenterol 1989;84:1244-9.
3. Watanabe K, Kimura K, Matsutani S, Ohto M, Okuda K. Portal hemodynomics in patients with gastric varices: a study in 230 patients with esophageal and/ or gastric varices using portal vein catheterization. Gastroenterology 1988;95:434-40.
4. Binmoeller KF. Glue for gastric varices: some sticky issues. Gastrointest Endosc 2000;52:298-301.
5. Kanagawa H, Mima S, Kouyama H, Gotoh K, Uchida T, Okuda K. Treatment of gastric fundal varices by balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 1996;11:51-8.
6. Iwase H, Maeda O, Shimada M, Tsuzuki T, Peek RM, Nishio Y, et al. Endoscopic ablation with cyanoacrylate glue for isolated gastric variceal bleeding. Gastrointest Enodosc 2001;53:585-92.
7. Irisawa A, Obara K, Sato Y, Saito A, Orisaka H, Ohira H, et al. Adherence of cyanoacrylate which leaked from gastric varices to the left renal vein during endoscopic injection sclerotherapy: a histopathologic study. Endoscopy 2000;32:804-6.
8. Chikamori F, Kuniyoshi N, Shibuya S, Takase N. Eight years experience with transjugular retrograde obliteration. Surgery 2001;129:414-20.