Endoscopic coagulation therapy is useful for improving encephalopathy in cirrhotic patients with gastric antral vascular ectasia

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 32-35

  Zushi, Shinichiro ^a,b   Imai, Yasuharu ^a   Fukuda, Kazuto ^a   Yabuta, Takamasa ^a   Tsujino, Seiko ^a   Yamada, Takuya ^a   Kurokawa, Masanori ^a  

^a Ikeda Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^b IKEDA MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Endoscopic therapy; Gastric antral vascular ectasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEAT TREATMENT; HEATER PROBE COAGULATION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LONG TERM CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; STOMACH ANTRUM VASCULAR ECTASIA;

EID: 14644389447     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2005.00426.x     Document Type: Article

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