endoscopy
Alcoholic Cirrhosis - 62 Years-Old Physician
This 62 year-old physician, withAlcoholic Cirrhosis presented his first bled due to esophageal varix, undergone variceal banding, six bands were placed.
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Status Post Final Banding
Almost all varices of the cardias have been ligated and are in necrotic stage. The risk of re-bleeding has been diminished.
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Necrotic Varices After...
More images and video clips of this endoscopic sequence
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Necrotic Varices After...
Based on the results of long-term follow-up of endoscopic variceal ligation, although the percentage of variceal recurrence was high, endoscopic ligation achieved variceal obliteration faster and in...
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Necrotic Varices After...
Band-ligation may not be a permanent solution since varices can recur after initial eradication, requiring continued surveillance.
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Next Session of Banding
One week after endoscopic variceal ligation (EVL) The varices are still strangulated by the elastic O- rings and become necrotic.
Acute Variceal Bleeding - Follow Up 7 Days After...
Seven days after banding a new endoscopy was performed the image and the video clip exhibit the post banding status. All varices that were ligated are in necrotic stage.
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...