GASTRIC varices are being seen increasingly often in the patient presenting acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage. This increased frequency is associated with a greater number of cirrhotic patients ...

Gastric varices occur in about half the total number of patients with cirrhosis. It is the most common reason for bleeding in upper gastrointestinal tract with high portal blood pressure and it ...

Gastric varices can typically be differentiated into cardiac or fundic depending on their location. The submucosal veins of the stomach balloon up (dilate) due to gastric varices. When the ...

The stomach and duodenum were clear of either fresh or old blood. There was an isolated cluster of gastric varices within the fundus, appreciated only on retroflexion. A red, flat spot was noted ...

TIPS denotes transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt. Gastric variceal hemorrhage is characterized by massive bleeding that is often more severe than esophageal variceal hemorrhage.

Gastric variceal hemorrhage is a serious consequence of end-stage liver disease, which is associated with high morbidity and mortality. 1 The majority of patients with cirrhosis develop varices ...

Changes clinical practice: Patients with portal hypertension and large gastric varices (>/=10mm size), either isolated or associated with esophageal varices, should undergo primary prophylaxis.

Diagnosis. Gastric variceal hemorrhage, severe portal hypertensive gastropathy, splenic vein thrombosis. Management. Blood transfusion, splenic artery embolization and balloon-occluded retrograde ...

Gastric varices (GV) are an important complication of portal hypertension. As an almost atraumatic method, computed tomography (CT) angiography has been used widely to show the portal vein system.

Isolated gastric varices were observed in the gastric fundus during the retroflexion of gastroscope. The authors carried out endoscopic sclerotherapy using cyanoacrylate combined with ...

Varices can also form in other areas of the body: Gastric varices occur in the stomach and duodenal varices form in the first part of the small intestine. A person can also develop rectal varices.