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  • Title: Outcome of injection sclerotherapy using absolute alcohol in patients with cirrhosis, non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis, and extrahepatic portal venous obstruction.
    Author: Kochhar R, Goenka MK, Mehta SK.
    Journal: Gastrointest Endosc; 1991; 37(4):460-4. PubMed ID: 1916169.
    Abstract:
    In order to assess the comparative efficacy and safety of endoscopic injection sclerotherapy in patients with portal hypertension of different etiology, i.e., cirrhosis, non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis, and extrahepatic portal venous obstruction, 87 patients with variceal bleeding were initiated on sclerotherapy using absolute alcohol. There was no significant difference in the success rate of sclerotherapy as well as in the number of sessions and volume of alcohol required for variceal obliteration between the three groups. Major complications included esophageal ulcers (30.0%), symptomatic strictures (18.6%), and interval re-bleed (17.1%) with similar complication rates for the three groups (p greater than 0.05). There was no difference between patients with Child's class A cirrhosis compared with classes B and C together with respect to efficacy and complications of sclerotherapy. Fifty patients (25 cirrhosis, 11 non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis, and 14 extrahepatic portal venous obstruction) with complete variceal obliteration were followed up for a mean period of 16.5 months. Sixteen patients (32%) had variceal recurrence, but bleeding due to recurrent varices occurred in only one case. There was no difference among the three groups for overall variceal recurrence, although recurrence tended to be somewhat later in extrahepatic portal venous obstruction (9.4 +/- 4.0 months) compared with that in cirrhosis (5.1 +/- 3.6 months) and non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis (4.8 +/- 2.6 months).
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