endoscopy
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Banding of Esophageal...
The video displays multiple varices that have been banding Mortality due to variceal bleeding secondary to portal hypertension has decreased significantly in the past 2 decades. Endoscopic therapy...
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Retroflexed View of...
The image and the video display gastric cardias in retroflexed maneuver, two varices has been ligated and they become to be necrotic.
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Varices after Ligation
More bands have been placed on the varices, resulting in spherical blebs. Note the colored elastic bands strangulating each varix at the base.
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Ligation of Multiple...
This image and video display multiple varices that have been ligated.
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Repeat Banding
This Process is continued until all the bands are deployed. Repeat banding is performed.
Acute Variceal Bleeding - View through the Special...
Technique uses a device attached to the tip of the endoscope that allows the varix to be suctioned into a banding chamber, whereupon an elastic band is then deployed around the base of the captured...
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Red Sign Symptom
The varix with the red spot at the GE junction is identifed, then gently sucked up into the cap and the band deployed around the varix. Banding ligation was first reported in humans in 1989 and represents...
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Follow Up and Further...
The next day, 8 varices were banding, the image and the video display a esophageal varix that has been ligated. Patients who have had one variceal bleed are at high risk of rebleeding. Since its introduction,...
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Yellowish of the Laryngeal...
Patient was found the larynx with ictericia due to his cirrotic condition.
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Closer Look at Ligated...
Another image and video clip of the previously ligated varix (statust post banding)
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Ligation of Eight Varices
The next day, an endoscopic evaluation was performed 8 varices were ligated. Bleeding from esophageal varices is the most serious and potentially fatal complication of portal hypertension. The rise...
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Two Necrotic Banded...
The two banding of the fundus are observed as necrotic that are less than 24 hours.
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Necrotic Area
Status Post Banding. At the cardias is seen with necrotic area where the varix was strangulated and another erosionated varix is observed.
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Status Post Banding
Status Post Banding. The next day an upper endoscopy was performed, the varix of the cardias was fall of with necrotic area and no active bleeding was found. The rubber bands slough off in the following...