Clinical outcomes of balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration for the treatment of gastric variceal hemorrhage in Korean patients with liver cirrhosis: a retrospective multicenter study

Se Young Jang,Go Heun Kim,Soo-Young Park,Chang Min Cho,Won Young Tak,Jeong Han Kim,Won Hyeok Choe,So Young Kwon,Jae Myeong Lee,Sang Gyune Kim,Dae Yong Kim,Young Seok Kim,Se Ok Lee,Yang Won Min,Joon Hyeok Lee,Seung Woon Paik,Byung Chul Yoo,Jae Wan Lim,Hong Joo Kim,Yong Kyun Cho,Joo-Hyun Sohn,Jae-Yoon Jeong,Yu Hwa Lee,Tae Yeob Kim,Young-Oh Kweon

Clinical outcomes of balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration for the treatment of gastric variceal hemorrhage in Korean patients with liver cirrhosis: a retrospective multicenter study

2012

Background/Aims This study evaluated the clinical outcomes of balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) for the treatment of hemorrhage from gastric varices (GV) in Korean patients with liver cirrhosis (LC).

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Severity of illness
Cirrhosis
Odds ratio
Gastroenterology
Balloon
Retrospective cohort study
Esophageal varices
Pulmonary embolism
Medicine
Gastric varices
Internal medicine
Endoscopy

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