Enlarged blood vessels around your esophagus are called varices. If they rupture, it may be fatal. Variceal banding is a procedure that prevents and treats these ruptures. Advanced liver conditions, ...

Blood transfusion did not significantly improve the prognosis of patients with digestive bleeding by esophageal varices, according to a study in Open Access Journal of Gastroenterology. “Digestive ...

Aim: To investigate if esophageal varices can be evaluated using external contrast-enhanced ultrasonography with Levovist and coded harmonic angio (CHA). Methods: Subjects were six healthy adult ...

Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina revealed the need to clarify current treatment guidelines for octreotide therapy following an esophageal variceal hemorrhage in a recent study ...

Nonselective beta blockers or endoscopic band ligation (EVL) are recommended for primary prophylaxis of variceal bleeding in patients with esophageal varices. However, it has been found that ...

Italian researchers have discovered that antiviral treatment and sustained virologic response (SVR) prevents esophageal varices in patients with compensated hepatitis C (HCV)-induced cirrhosis, ...

To describe an exceedingly rare case of spinal cord infarction following endoscopic variceal ligation. A 75-year-old woman with cirrhosis caused by hepatitis C virus, who was admitted to our hospital ...

We have observed frequent discrepancies between the endoscopic and radiologic diagnosis of esophageal varices. In addition, differences in interpretation of the same radiologic examination by various ...

Ramat Gan, Israel, Sept. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Can-Fite BioPharma Ltd. (NYSE American: CANF) (TASE: CANF), a biotechnology company developing a pipeline of proprietary small molecule drugs ...

The published comparisons of esophageal varices by these two methods have been retrospective and uncontrolled in several important ways. First of all, the two examinations were not performed ...