The management of acute variceal haemorrhage.
Sixty-two patients presented on 81 occasions with acute-oesophageal variceal haemorrhage. Bleeding required tamponade on or during that admission on 87 occasions and was successful in arresting haemorrhage in 93%. Employing a policy of management in which injection sclerotherapy was the main therapeutic option, control of haemorrhage was achieved on 89% of admissions with an admission mortality of 30%. These results are compared with other reported series.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000628:therapy*; D004947:Esophagus / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012597:Sclerosing Solutions / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013630:Tampons, Surgical; D013997:Time Factors
D012597:Sclerosing Solutions