Acute Variceal Bleeding - Source of Bleeding, Part 2

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Case description

About 30% of patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension bleed from ruptured esophageal varices. with a mortality for the initial bleed that may exceed 50% After a first bleed, untreated patients have a risk of rebleeding as high as 60%. The risk decreases with time, returning to baseline values by the sixth week after the variceal bleeding episode. Although gastric varices also bleed, little information is available on their natural history and their fate after endoscopic sclerotherapy of esophageal varices.

tags: bleeding endoscopy varices

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