title: Percutaneous transhepatic obliteration of gastroesophageal varices using absolute alcohol.
abstract: Eleven patients underwent percutaneous transhepatic portography and esophageal variceal sclerosis. Absolute alcohol was used. Only two patients rebled in the follow-up period; both individuals died. Two additional patients died without further bleeding. The remaining seven patients survived from 13 to 19 months without rebleeding. Absolute alcohol is useful as a sclerosing agent for varices and may produce a more permanent and distal occlusion of gastroesophageal varices.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000431:Ethanol; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000517:prevention & control; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012008:Recurrence; D012597:Sclerosing Solutions
chemical_list: D012597:Sclerosing Solutions; D000431:Ethanol