title: Deflating balloon tamponade: Should we expand the use of stents for severe refractory esophageal variceal bleeding?
authors.affiliation: Section of Digestive Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
authors.forename: Loren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Laine
mesh_terms: D021721:Balloon Occlusion; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage; D006801:Humans; D015607:Stents; D014648:Varicose Veins