Usefulness of microcatheters inserted overnight for additional injection of sclerosant after initial balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration of gastric varices

Case Reports in Gastroenterology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 534-539

  Sonomura, Tetsuo ^a   Sahara, Shinya ^a   Ono, Wataru ^b   Sato, Morio ^a   Kawai, Nobuyuki ^a   Minamiguchi, Hiroki ^a   Nakai, Motoki ^a   Kishi, Kazushi ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kishiwada Tokushukai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Balloon occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration; Gastric varices; Microcatheter

Indexed keywords

ETHANOLAMINE OLEATE IOPAMIDOL; SCLEROSING AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BALLOON CATHETER; BALLOON OCCLUDED RETROGRADE TRANSVENOUS OBLITERATION; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CATHETER REMOVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUOROSCOPY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH VARICES; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 84855257245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16620631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000332035     Document Type: Article

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