Evaluation and management of variceal bleeding

Obada Tayyem; Mohammad Bilal; Ronald Samuel; Sheharyar K. Merwat

doi:10.1016/j.disamonth.2018.02.001

Evaluation and management of variceal bleeding

Obada Tayyem, Mohammad Bilal, Ronald Samuel, Sheharyar K. Merwat

Internal Medicine

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Abstract

Acute variceal bleeding is one of the most fatal complications of cirrhosis and is responsible for about one-third of cirrhosis-related deaths. Therefore, every effort should be made to emergently resuscitate the patients, start pharmacotherapy as soon as possible and do endoscopic therapy in a timely manner. Despite the recent advances in treatment, mortality rate is still high. We provide a comprehensive review of evaluation and management of variceal bleeding.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	312-320
Number of pages	9
Journal	Disease-a-Month
Volume	64
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.disamonth.2018.02.001
State	Published - Jul 2018

Keywords

Cirrhosis
Esophageal varices
Gastric varices
Gastrointestinal bleeding
Variceal bleeding

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General Medicine

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