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Avaliação dos pacientes com varizes esofágicas hemorrágicas submetidos à escleroterapia endoscópica

1995; UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE LONDRINA; Volume: 16; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5433/1679-0367.1995v16n2p292

ISSN

1679-0367

Autores

Rener Guerra Balan, Milton Shigueki Nagaoka, Inês Ogai Nakamoto, Rose Meire Albuquerque Pontes, Evelin Massae Ogatta Muraguchi, Faissal José Muarrek, Pedro Humberto Perin Leite,

Tópico(s)

Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases

Resumo

The high digestive bleeding by esophageal varices is one of the most dramatic complications 01 patients with portal hypertension and the endoscopic sclerotherapy has been used on the treatment and as so a prevention from rebleeding. The present study has as objective to evaluate the evolution of patients submitted to sclerotherapy related to the presence of rebleeding and method complications on a minimum period of two years. Thirty one patients took part in the study, 48.4 % of which had rebleeding during the follow-up and 51.6 % had complications due to sclerosis; the esophagic ulceratiem was the mostfrequentcomplication (56.3%).

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