The use of self-expanding metal stents to treat acute esophageal variceal bleeding

Endoscopy

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 896-901

  Hubmann, Rainer ^a   Bodlaj, G ^a   Czompo, M ^a   Benko L ^b   Pichler, P ^a   Al Kathib, S ^a   Kiblbock P ^a   Shamyieh, A ^b   Biesenbach, G ^a  

^a KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LACTULOSE; METAL; NEOMYCIN; ORNITHINE ASPARTATE; SCLEROSING AGENT; SOMATOSTATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEVICE REMOVAL; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROSCOPY; GOLD STANDARD; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PILOT STUDY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; SAFETY; SCLEROTHERAPY; STENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN LIGATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALLOON DILATATION; BALLOON DILATION; BALLOON OCCLUSION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROSCOPY; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS;

EID: 33748937549     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-944662     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Stokkeland K, Brandt L, Ekbom A, Hultcrantz R. Cause-specific mortality is decreased for patients hospitalized for esophageal varices in Sweden 1969-2002. Hepatology 2005; 42: 350A
2. D'Amico G, Pagliaro L, Bosch J. The treatment of portal hypertension: a meta-analytic review. Hepatology 1995; 22: 332-354
3. Karsan HA, Morton SC, Shekelle PG et al. Combination endoscopic band ligation and sclerotherapy compared with endoscopic band ligation alone for the secondary prophylaxis of esophageal variceal hemorrhage: a meta-analysis. Dig Dis Sci 2005; 50: 399-406
4. Peck-Radosavljevic M, Trauner M, Schreiber F. Austrian consensus on the definition and treatment of portal hypertension and its complications. Endoscopy 2005; 37: 667-673
5. D'Amico G, Pietrosi G, Tarantino I, Pagliaro L. Emergency sclerotherapy versus vasoactive drugs for variceal bleeding in cirrhosis: a Cochrane meta-analysis. Gastroenterology 2003; 124: 1277-1291
6. Garcia-Pagan JC, Bosch J. Endoscopic band ligation in the treatment of portal hypertension. Nat Clin Pract Gastroenterol Hepatol 2005; 2: 526-535
7. De Franchis R. Evolving consensus in portal hypertension: report of the Baveno IV Consensus Workshop on methodology of diagnosis and therapy in portal hypertension. J Hepatol 2005; 43: 167-176
8. Sorbi D, Gostout CJ, Peura D et al. An assessment of the management of acute bleeding varices: a multicenter prospective member-based study. Am J Gastroenterol 2003; 98: 2424-2434
9. Dormann A, Meisner S, Verin N et al. Self-expanding metal stents for gastroduodenal malignancies: systematic review of their clinical effectiveness. Endoscopy 2004; 36: 543-550
10. Danis J, Hubmann R, Pichler P et al. Novel technique of laparoscopic azygoportal disconnection for treatment of esophageal varicosis: preliminary experience with five patients. Surg Endosc 2004; 18: 702-705
11. Chalasani N, Kahi C, François F et al. Improved patient survival after acute variceal bleeding: a multicenter, cohort study. Am J Gastroenterol 2003; 98: 653-659
12. Cook D, Laine L. Indications, technique, and complications of balloon tamponade for variceal gastrointestinal bleeding. J Intensive Care Med 1992; 7: 212-218
13. Vossschulte K. Dissection & ligation of the esophagus in esophageal varices caused by hypertension of portal veins; in German. Chirurg 1957; 28: 186-189