Management of varices and variceal hemorrhage in cirrhosis.
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Summary
This review explains the three main challenges in clinical management: primary prophylaxis to prevent a first episode of hemorrhage, the treatment of acute bleeding episodes, and secondary prophymic treatment to prevent recurrence of variceal hemorrhage.
- Type
- review
- Published
- 2010-03-04
- Cited by
- 943
- References
- 71
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W2020766594
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- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:29715803
Keywords
Medicine, Cirrhosis, Varices, Complication, Varix
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- Liver disease, coagulopathies and transfusion therapy.
- Management of portal hypertension derived from uncommon causes
- Liver stiffness predicts variceal bleeding in HIV/HCV-coinfected patients with compensated cirrhosis
- Efficacy of carvedilol versus propranolol versus variceal band ligation for primary prevention of variceal bleeding
- Management of varices in cirrhosis.
- Repercusión de la capacidad de respuesta cardiovascular en la estabilidad hemodinámica y la aparición de complicaciones en trasplante hepático
- Management der dekompensierten Leberzirrhose auf der Intensivstation
- Management of liver cirrhosis in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Prise en charge par le réanimateur des hémorragies digestives de l’adulte et de l’enfant
- Aktuelle Therapieoptionen für die dekompensierte Leberzirrhose auf der Intensivstation
- Komplikationen der Leberzirrhose
- Novel approaches to upper gastrointestinal conditions: a focus on bleeding and malignancy
- Association between portal vein thrombosis and risk of bleeding in liver cirrhosis: A systematic review of the literature.
- HIPERTENSÃO PORTAL-MEIOS AUXILIARES DE DIAGNÓSTICO
- Intérêt du gradient de concentration sérum-ascite en albumine dans le diagnostic des varices œsophagiennes chez le cirrhotique africain, Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)
- Prediction of Esophageal Variceal Bleeding in Liver Cirrhosis: Is There a Role for Hemostatic Factors?
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