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DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-925163
Endoscopic Band Ligation of Active Cardiac Variceal Bleeding
M. K. Jang, M. D.
Dept. of Internal Medicine, Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital of Hallym University Medical Center
445 Gildong
Kangdonggu
Seoul
Korea 134-701
Fax: +82-2-478-6925
Email: mkjang2@medimail.co.kr
Publication History
Publication Date:
05 May 2006 (online)
Figure 1 A 60-year-old man presented at the emergency department due to massive hematemesis. He had been diagnosed with alcoholic liver cirrhosis 5 years previously, but had since been lost to follow-up. Emergency endoscopy revealed active bleeding from a cardiac varix.
Figure 2 a, b The cardiac variceal bleeding was successfully controlled by endoscopic band ligation.
M. K. Jang, M. D.
Dept. of Internal Medicine, Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital of Hallym University Medical Center
445 Gildong
Kangdonggu
Seoul
Korea 134-701
Fax: +82-2-478-6925
Email: mkjang2@medimail.co.kr
M. K. Jang, M. D.
Dept. of Internal Medicine, Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital of Hallym University Medical Center
445 Gildong
Kangdonggu
Seoul
Korea 134-701
Fax: +82-2-478-6925
Email: mkjang2@medimail.co.kr
Figure 1 A 60-year-old man presented at the emergency department due to massive hematemesis. He had been diagnosed with alcoholic liver cirrhosis 5 years previously, but had since been lost to follow-up. Emergency endoscopy revealed active bleeding from a cardiac varix.
Figure 2 a, b The cardiac variceal bleeding was successfully controlled by endoscopic band ligation.