title: [Complications of endoscopic sclerotherapy of esophageal varices].
abstract: During the last decade, the endoscopic sclerotherapy has taken a prominent part in the treatment of digestive haemorrhage following up oesophageal varices rupture. Several complications have been reported after this method: Some of them are of no importance and frequent, occurring in 20 to 60% of cases, and essentially represented by retrosternal pains, dysphagia and fever. Others are major, observed in 16% of cases, with stenosis type or oesophagus perforation or pleuropulmonary lesions. Preventive measures, if well applied, could reduce the incidence of these complications observed after endoscopic sclerosis of oesophageal varices.
authors.affiliation: Hôtel-Dieu de France, Hôpital Saint Joseph, Dora.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Honein
mesh_terms: D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000401:mortality; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000628:therapy*; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D015995:Prevalence; D012008:Recurrence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D015911:Sclerotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000401:mortality
vernacular_title: Les complications de la sclérose endoscopique des varices oesophagiennes.