Related Experiment Videos
Non-surgical treatment of variceal haemorrhage
1Department of Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
British Journal of Hospital Medicine
|February 4, 1997
Abstract:
Bleeding from gastro-oesophageal varices is a serious medical emergency associated with high morbidity and mortality. Recent advances in treatment include the use of safer vasoactive agents, endoscopic injection of cyanoacrylate, endoscopic variceal ligation and radiological porto-systemic shunt. This article will discuss these new therapies and suggest an integrated approach to the management of variceal haemorrhage.