Endoscopic ultrasound-guided therapy of gastric varices with coils plus cyanoacrylate injection versus coiling alone: getting evidence-based data but are they comparable?

Endoscopy. 2021 Jan;53(1):101. doi: 10.1055/a-1214-6213. Epub 2020 Dec 17.

Authors

Rafael Romero-Castro^{1

2}, Mark Ellrichmann³, Victoria A Jimenez-Garcia^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Endoscopy Unit, Virgen Macarena University Hospital, Gastroenterology Division, Seville, Spain.
² Endoscopy Unit, Vithas Nisa Seville Hospital, Seville, Spain.
³ Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany.

PMID: 33333577
DOI: 10.1055/a-1214-6213

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Cyanoacrylates
Endosonography
Esophageal and Gastric Varices* / complications
Esophageal and Gastric Varices* / therapy
Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / etiology
Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / therapy
Hemostasis, Endoscopic*
Humans
Ultrasonography, Interventional

Substances

Cyanoacrylates