Bleeding from duodenal varices is a rare complication of portal hypertension. Most patients with duodenal varices have extrahepatic portal hypertension [1]. Due to the limited number of cases, different treatment modalities for duodenal varices have not been compared in randomized controlled trials and most of our current knowledge is obtained from case reports and small case series. So far, en...

Colonic diverticular bleeding is the most common cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding in adults [1,2]. Bleeding can occur from an injured branch of the submucosal plexus vessels at the neck or along the dome of the diverticulum [3]. While the majority (approximately 80%) of bleeding is self-limited, some patients can develop massive bleeding–perhaps because the submucosal plexus is derived ...

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Rebleeding after initially successful endoscopic variceal ligation (EVL) occurs in 20-60% of patients, most commonly from band ulcers, and is associated with 20-50% mortality. Although band ulcer bleeding has been treated in a number of different ways, no single therapeutic intervention has shown a clear benefit. Hemospray (Cook Medical, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA) is a relatively new n...