Prevalence of helicobacter pylori was evaluated by urease test in 513 patients undergoing GI endoscopy, in hospital No1 Kerman university of medical sciences and health services from June 1992 through April 1993. H. Pylori was detected in 56.9℅ of tested samples by urease test. There was no significant correlation with sex, age and cigarette smoking. Prevalence of H.pylori was 16℅ in control gr...

INTRODUCTION Variceal bleeding is a frequent and serious complication of cirrhosis. Early detection of varices by videogastroscope (VGC) is recommended in all patients with cirrhosis to determine the need for prophylactic treatment. Have been described noninvasive markers of the presence of esophageal varices, which could prevent the realization of VGC for that purpose. OBJECTIVE To determine...

Esophageal varix and its hemorrhage are serious complications of liver cirrhosis. Recent studies have focused on noninvasive prediction of esophageal varices. We attempted to evaluate the association of liver and spleen stiffness (LS and SS) as measured by acoustic radiation force impulse imaging, with the presence and severity of esophageal varices and variceal hemorrhage in cirrhotic patients...

BACKGROUND Use of endoscopic therapies for esophageal varices has resulted in increased prevalence of fundal varices and severe portal hypertensive gastropathy. This study was meant to compare the effect of band ligation and sclerotherapy on development of fundal varices and portal hypertensive gastropathy. METHODS Patients with esophageal varices presenting in the endoscopy unit of Shiakh Za...

Received: May 08, 2017; Accepted: May 19, 2017; Published: May 22, 2017 A 49-year-old man was referred to us with a diagnosis of hematemesis by giant pipeline esophageal varices due to liver cirrhosis hepatitis C infection after carving a tattoo at 20-year age (Figures 1A & 1B). We reviewed the treatment strategy. Endoscopic injection sclerotherapy (EIS) was generally treated esophageal varices...

Esophageal and gastric varices may complicate the course of cirrhosis as a direct consequence of portal hypertension. Variceal hemorrhage has been reported to occur in 25-40% of patients with cirrhosis [Gastroenterol Clin North Am 1992;21:149-161]. Occasionally, varices develop at sites other than the esophagus and are detected either when they bleed or incidentally during upper or lower endosc...

TRANSESOPHAGEAL echocardiography (TEE) is an integral tool for intraoperative monitoring and diagnosis in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. TEE remains a moderately invasive procedure with a very low incidence of complications, ranging from 0.2% to 1.2%. The spectrum of complications has included injury to the gastrointestinal tract, obstruction of airways, dysrhythmias, hemorrhage, or entra...

AIM recent guidelines recommend that all cirrhotic patients without previous variceal hemorrhage undergo endoscopic screening to detect esophageal varices. The aim of this study is to evaluate clinical, laboratory and ultrasound parameters to detect esophageal varices. METHODS this is a cross sectional study. Fourty seven consecutive cirrhotic patients without history of variceal hemorrhage u...

CONTEXT Upper gastrointestinal bleeding associated to esophageal varices is the most dramatic complication of cirrhosis. It is recommended screening every cirrhotic for esophageal varices with endoscopy. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the capacity of the platelet count/spleen diameter ratio in non-invasively predicting esophageal varices in a population of cirrhotics originated in an independent cent...

N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate is widely used to sclerose bleeding gastric varices. We report the case of a 65-year-old lady, known case of cirrhosis secondary to hepatitis C infection, who presented to the emergency department with coffee ground vomiting and melena for four days. Gastroscopy showed non-bleeding small esophageal varices, mild portal hypertensive gastropathy and a large gastric fundal ...