title: Massive gastric antral vascular ectasia successfully treated by endoscopic band ligation as the initial therapy.
abstract: Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) accounted for 4% of non-variceal gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Even though unclear pathogenesis, GAVE often associated with chronic renal failure, autoimmune diseases and cirrhosis. Asymptomatic lesions were reasonably not to treated. The treatment options for GAVE are non-endoscopic and endoscopic treatments. For the pharmacological treatment, some success were reported for the use of octreotide, thalidomide and tranexamic acid. While the endoscopic treatment is the mainstay for treatment of symptomatic lesions. The endoscopic ablative therapies such as argon plasma coagulation was reported with good clinical outcomes. However, these treatment options had some limitation due to the need of special equipment and multiple sessions needed to control the bleeding. We reported another treatment option using the routine-achievable instrument such as endoscopic band ligation as an initial treatment which also provided a good treatment outcome and less sessions.
authors.affiliation: Varayu Prachayakul, Somchai Leelakusolvong, Siriraj GI Endoscopy Center, Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok 10700, Thailand.
authors.forename: Varayu
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Prachayakul
authors.forename: Pitulak
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Aswakul
authors.forename: Somchai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Leelakusolvong
keywords: Endoscopic band ligation; Gastric antral vascular ectasia; Non variceal hemorrhage; Treatment; Water melon stomach