Usefulness of Microcatheters Inserted Overnight for Additional Injection of Sclerosant after Initial Balloon-Occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration of Gastric Varices

Usefulness of Microcatheters Inserted Overnight for Additional Injection of Sclerosant after Initial Balloon-Occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration of Gastric Varices

In patients with large gastric varices, dose limitation of the sclerosant can cause difficulties in achieving complete thrombosis of varices during a single balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) procedure. For patients with incomplete variceal thrombosis after the first BRTO, a...

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Main Authors: Sonomura, Tetsuo, Sahara, Shinya, Ono, Wataru, Sato, Morio, Kawaixy, Nobuyuki, Minamiguchi, Hiroki, Nakai, Motoki, Kishi, Kazushi
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: S. Karger AG 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3214687/

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