Emergency balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration of ruptured gastric varices.

Tetsuo Sonomura,Wataru Ono,Morio Sato,Shinya Sahara,Kouhei Nakata,Hiroki Sanda,Nobuyuki Kawai,Hiroki Minamiguchi,Motoki Nakai,Kazushi Kishi

Emergency balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration of ruptured gastric varices.

2013

Tetsuo Sonomura
Wataru Ono
Morio Sato
Shinya Sahara
Kouhei Nakata
Hiroki Sanda
Nobuyuki Kawai
Hiroki Minamiguchi
Motoki Nakai
Kazushi Kishi

Background We evaluated the efficacy of emergency balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (B-RTO) performed within 24 h after initial hemostasis for the prevention of rebleeding from ruptured gastric varices.

Keywords:

Hemostasis
General surgery
Gastric varices
Medicine
Radiology
Portal hypertension
tomography x ray computed
Melena
balloon occlusion
Surgery
treatment outcome
Balloon
Ethanolamine Oleate

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