| Literature DB >> 16221910 |
Tetsuya Fukuda1, Shozo Hirota, Koji Sugimoto, Shinichi Matsumoto, Carlos A Zamora, Kazuro Sugimura.
Abstract
The efficacy of a "downgrading" method for treatment of gastric varices (GVs) was evaluated in 15 patients who had undergone balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (B-RTO) of GVs with multiple collateral veins. Downgrading in this study was meant to transform high-grade GVs into GVs with a low-grade architecture more amenable to treatment. Success was defined as gastrorenal shunt occlusion at the proximal site with a 6-F balloon catheter advanced over a microcatheter and without opacification of large collateral vessels. Thirteen of 15 patients with grade 3/4 GVs had their GVs successfully downgraded. The procedure is thought to be safe and effective in the initial B-RTO procedure.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16221910 DOI: 10.1097/01.RVI.0000175336.05823.eb
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Vasc Interv Radiol ISSN: 1051-0443 Impact factor: 3.464