Unbounded Medicine » Mariana, M.D. http://www.unboundedmedicine.com A med blog about health, news, surgery, urology and medicine as it must be, unlimited. Mon, 31 May 2010 17:56:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Active Variceal Hemorrhage http://www.unboundedmedicine.com/2006/08/15/active-variceal-hemorrhage/ http://www.unboundedmedicine.com/2006/08/15/active-variceal-hemorrhage/#comments Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:43:29 +0000 Mariana, M.D. http://www.unboundedmedicine.com/2006/08/15/active-variceal-hemorrhage/ Active bleeding of esophageal varices can be difficult to treat, it really represents a life-threatening condition when not treated, because just 50% of patients with acute variceal hemorrhage stop bleeding spontaneously.

Endoscopic therapy is currently the definitive treatment of choice for active variceal hemorrhage and it can be performed at the same time as diagnostic endoscopy at the bedside by virtually all trained endoscopists.

Band ligation is effective for achieving hemostasis and for prevention of early rebleeding.

The following images correspond to a case of active variceal bleeding wich was treated with endoscopic ligation:

active bleeding ligation ligation 2
Courtesy of Dr. Mariana Herrera Guerrero

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