Therapeutic Influence on Esophageal Varices and Gastric Mucosa in Cirrhotic Patients Following Balloon-occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration

• Published in: Progress of Digestive Endoscopy(1972) Vol. 48; pp. 64 - 66
• Main Authors: Sugimoto, Izumi, Narimiya, Norichika, Hamada, Hiroko, Itoh, Yoshihiro, Maruyama, Tatsushi, Miyajima, Hiroto, Tsuruta, Yumi, Satoh, Hiromitsu, Johki, Mari, Iwasaki, Masahiko, Watanabe, Toshiaki, Tanaka, Teruji
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society Kanto Chapter 07.06.1996
• Subjects: portal hypertensive gastropathy
• ISSN: 0389-9403; 2189-0021
• DOI: 10.11641/pdensks.48.0_64

This study was conducted to assess the influence on esophageal varices and gastric mucosa following balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) in 10 patients with liver cirrhosis and gastric varices. Esophageal varices in 2 cases have been exacerbated by BRTO and one of them was required additional EIS. In all cases, reddish mosaic-like findings,“scaly reddening”we call, was observed in the gastric mucosa with gastric varices following BRTO. In only two cases portal hypertensive gastropathy (PHG) was deteriorated following BRTO. Newly developed? PHG have not been observed in 8 cases without PHG after the procedure. It is unlikely that obliteration of gastrorenal shunt BRTO induces deleterious effect on PHG.