Is There a Role for Empiric Gastroduodenal Artery Embolization in the Management of Patients with Active Upper GI Hemorrhage

Shaheen Dixon,Victoria Chan,Vivek Shrivastava,Susan Anthony,Raman Uberoi,Mark Bratby

Is There a Role for Empiric Gastroduodenal Artery Embolization in the Management of Patients with Active Upper GI Hemorrhage

2013

Shaheen Dixon
Victoria Chan
Vivek Shrivastava
Susan Anthony
Raman Uberoi
Mark Bratby

Purpose To assess the relative efficacy of empiric gastroduodenal artery (GDA) embolization in reducing recurrent hemorrhage compared to image-guided targeted embolization.

Keywords:

Embolization
Upper gastrointestinal bleeding
Radiology
Upper GI hemorrhage
Recurrent hemorrhage
Angiography
Gastroduodenal artery
Medicine
relative efficacy

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