The Veterans Affairs Cooperative Variceal Sclerotherapy Group. (1991) Prophylactic sclerotherapy for esophageal varices in men with alcoholic liver disease. The New England Journal of Medicine; 324: 1779-1784. Background. Sclerotherapy is an effective treatment for bleeding esophageal varices in patients with alcoholic liver disease. It has also been suggested that sclerotherapy might be effect...

Endoscopic injection sclerotherapy has been accepted as the procedure of choice for patients with variceal hemorrhage. To evaluate the efficiency of endoscopic injection sclerotherapy in patients with bleeding esophageal varices, we did a retrospective study of 52 patients (non-sclerotherapy group) with bleeding esophageal varices who were admitted to hospitals and did not receive sclerotherapy...

l/an Thiel, D. H., Dindzans, V. J., Schade, R. R., Rabinovitz, M. and Gavaler, J. S. (1993) Prophylactic versus emer#ency sclerotherapy of lar#e esopha#eal varices prior to liver transplantation. Di#estive Diseases and Sciences; 38 1505-1510 From January 1985 through July 1987, adult patients accepted for liver transplantation with large esophageal varices were enrolled in a study evaluating th...

AIM To find out how and when Italian phlebologically-active physicians apply perioperative sclerotherapy. MATERIAL AND METHODS A questionnaire was e-mailed to the members of three different Italian Societies of Phlebology. The answers were collected in a database (SPSS19 for Windows) and statistically evaluated. RESULTS Ninety surgeons (87.4%) and 13 (12.6%) phlebologists responded, 57 (56,...

BACKGROUND Absolute ethanol sclerotherapy provides a reliable treatment for facial venous malformation, although facial nerve injury may occur after sclerotherapy. This study is a retrospective review of facial nerve dysfunction after sclerotherapy. METHODS A total of 91 patients with facial venous malformations accepted 288 ethanol sclerotherapy sessions. The facial nerve dysfunctions caused...

The history of sclerotherapy of varicose veins of lower extremities dates back to 1840's. The use of stronger sclerosants thereafter led to serious complications, and the use of sclerotherapy decreased for varicose veins. However, sclerotherapy again became popular after introduction of safer sclerosant and compression sclerotherapy. After introduction of sclerosing foam in mid 1990's, many phl...

PURPOSE We demonstrated that hydrocele aspiration and sclerotherapy with doxycycline is an effective and safe nonsurgical treatment option for hydrocele correction. MATERIALS AND METHODS The medical records of patients who underwent hydrocele aspiration and sclerotherapy were analyzed in a retrospective cohort study for success rates as well as improvement in scrotal size and discomfort after...

OBJECTIVES To compare aspiration and sclerotherapy using sodium tetradecylsulfate (STDS) with open hydrocelectomy in the treatment of hydroceles with regard to safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness. METHODS Patients with symptomatic hydroceles were prospectively enrolled in an aspiration and sclerotherapy protocol between October 1998 and June 2000. Patients in this group underwent percuta...

BACKGROUND The role of sclerotherapy for acute variceal bleeding is challenged by vasoactive drugs and by ligation. AIM A meta-analysis was performed to evaluate whether sclerotherapy remains a gold standard in acute variceal bleeding. METHODS Sclerotherapy was evaluated across four randomized trial groups: (a) combined with vasoconstrictors vs. vasoconstrictors alone (five trials, with 400...

(1994) Prophylactic sclerotherapy for esophageal varices: Long-term results of a prospective study. Endoscopy; 26: 729-733. Controlled trials of endoscopic sclerotherapy for the prevention of the first variceal hemorrhage have given controversial results. We continued a previously reported study and randomly assigned 141 patients with esophageal varics and no prior gastrointestinal bleeding to ...