Post written by Abbinaya Elangovan, MD, from the University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. We report on a patient with pancreatic adenocarcinoma who presented with recurrent GI bleeding. He underwent multiple investigations that did not reveal the etiology of bleeding. A bulging was noted in the duodenum in upper endoscopy …
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Treatment for endoscopically obscured bleeding gastric varices
Raymond S. Tang, MD, from the Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, in Hong Kong, China presents this VideoGIE case "EUS-guided cyanoacrylate injection for treatment of endoscopically obscured bleeding gastric varices." Variceal bleeding is still a potentially lethal adverse event of cirrhosis. While resuscitation, early use of …
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