Background and Aims: Recent progress in the treatment of variceal bleeding might have reduced the impact of variceal bleeding on survival in patients with esophageal varices. We conducted a ...

If the veins rupture, they can cause severe and life-threatening bleeding. Variceal bleeding accounts for 10-30% of all upper GI bleeds. Esophageal varices do not usually cause symptoms until a GI ...

Esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed grade 1 esophageal varices with no signs of hemorrhage. Subsequent colonoscopy showed a large convolute of varicose veins (Figure) with a fibrin-covered ...

Background: It is currently recommended that all patients with liver cirrhosis undergo upper gastrointestinal endoscopy (UGIE) to identify those who have large esophageal varices (LEVx ...

Hemorrhage from esophageal varices in the cirrhotic patient is an ... of esophageal tamponade would have died from other causes. It is possible that the complications observed in this series ...

1 Although the risk of bleeding from gastric varices is estimated to be half that of esophageal varices ... remains controversial... A further cause for concern regarding Procaccini and colleagues ...