TY - JOUR
T1 - Variant treatment for gastric varices with polidocanol foam using balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration: a pilot study
AU - Clements, Warren
AU - Cavanagh, Karda
AU - Ali, Faizal
AU - Kavnoudias, Helen
AU - Kemp, William
AU - Roberts, Stuart
AU - Lyon, Stuart McAlister
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Patients were recruited with cirrhotic liver disease, a history of upper
gastrointestinal bleeding, and large gastric fundal varices confirmed on gastroscopyand CT venogram. BRTO was performed as a same-day procedureusing a balloon catheter inserted via a gastro-renal shunt with Polidocanol foam injected and a balloon inflated for 2 h. Follow-up was with repeat CTportovenogram, gastroscopy at 6 weeks post-procedure, and in a gastroenterology liver clinic at 1- to 3-month intervals.
AB - Patients were recruited with cirrhotic liver disease, a history of upper
gastrointestinal bleeding, and large gastric fundal varices confirmed on gastroscopyand CT venogram. BRTO was performed as a same-day procedureusing a balloon catheter inserted via a gastro-renal shunt with Polidocanol foam injected and a balloon inflated for 2 h. Follow-up was with repeat CTportovenogram, gastroscopy at 6 weeks post-procedure, and in a gastroenterology liver clinic at 1- to 3-month intervals.
UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1754-9485.2012.02453.x/pdf
U2 - 10.1111/j.1754-9485.2012.02453.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1754-9485.2012.02453.x
M3 - Article
SN - 1754-9477
VL - 56
SP - 599
EP - 605
JO - Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology
JF - Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology
IS - 6
ER -