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Aim: To investigate if esophageal varices can be evaluated using external ... 300 mg/mL of Levovist was intravenously injected into the cubital vein at a rate of 1 mL/s under observation by ...

Patients with cirrhosis often develop abnormal veins known as varices in the esophagus that can bleed and require immediate intervention. The current treatment calls for the banding of varices ...

Bleeding from gastric varices is relatively common and can be ... neither is it clear how patients with portal vein thrombosis were managed after 2004. Although treatment groups in this study ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina revealed the need to clarify current treatment guidelines for ...