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Banding is a medical procedure which uses elastic bands for constriction. Banding may be used to tie off blood vessels in order to stop bleeding, as in the treatment of bleeding esophageal varices. [1] The band restricts blood flow to the ligated tissue, so that it eventually dies and sloughs away from the supporting tissue.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) produced clinical guidelines in July 2013 recommending that all people with symptomatic varicose veins (C2S) and worse should be referred to a vascular service for treatment. [33] Conservative treatments such as support stockings should not be used unless treatment was not possible.
Somatostatin and octreotide, while recommended for varicial bleeding, have not been found to be of general use for non variceal bleeds. [4] After treatment of a high risk bleeding ulcer endoscopically giving a PPI once or a day rather than as an infusion appears to work just as well and is less expensive (the method may be either by mouth or ...
In situations where portal pressures increase, such as with cirrhosis, there is dilation of veins in the anastomosis, leading to esophageal varices. [3] Splenic vein thrombosis is a rare condition that causes esophageal varices without a raised portal pressure. Splenectomy can cure the variceal bleeding due to splenic vein thrombosis. [citation ...
People are usually stratified into having either variceal or non-variceal sources of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage, as the two have different treatment algorithms and prognosis. [citation needed] The causes for upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage include the following: Esophageal causes (gastrorrhagia): Esophageal varices; Esophagitis ...
Anorectal varices are collateral submucosal blood vessels dilated by backflow in the veins of the rectum. [1] Typically this occurs due to portal hypertension which shunts venous blood from the portal system through the portosystemic anastomosis present at this site into the systemic venous system .
Therapeutic endoscopy is the medical term for an endoscopic procedure during which treatment is carried out via the endoscope. This contrasts with diagnostic endoscopy, where the aim of the procedure is purely to visualize a part of the gastrointestinal, respiratory or urinary tract in order to aid diagnosis.
Band ligator: Used to perform variceal band ligation: Sengstaken–Blakemore tube: Used in the management of bleeding esophageal varices: Balloon dilator: Used to perform esophageal balloon dilatation, pyloric dilatation or ileocolonic dilatation Savary-Gilliard dilator: Used to perform esophageal bougie dilatation: Heater probe