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Assessment of Plasma Coagulation on Liver Tissue in a Large Animal Model In Vivo
Published on: August 4, 2018
Successful treatment of watermelon stomach / GAVE syndrome by using argon plasma coagulation
Muhammad Afzal Bhatti1, Anwaar A Khan, Altaf Alam
1Department of Gastroenterology, Sheikh Zayed Hospital, FPGMI, Lahore. afzalbhatti@hotmail.com
Abstract:
This case report describes a 50-year-old female patient with liver cirrhosis presented with anemia. She was found to be suffering from gastric antral vascular ectasia (watermelon stomach) on upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. She underwent multiple sessions with Argon plasma coagulation, a non-contact thermal method of hemostasis for the management of watermelon stomach. After 3 sessions, the lesions disappeared and the hemoglobin increased by 2.4 gm/dl without any need of transfusion.
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