Better Control of Esophageal Variceal Bleeding by Sclerotherapy Followed by Surgery

Overview

Journal Jpn J Surg

Specialty General Surgery

Date 1990 May 1

PMID 2359204

Authors

H Ashida

A Nishioka

M Fukuda

Y Kotoura

Y Ishikawa

J Utsunomiya

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Abstract

This paper reports the clinical results of a retrospective study comparing endoscopic injection sclerotherapy (EIS) and back-up surgical treatment after EIS in the management of acute variceal bleeding. The 74 patients included in the study were divided into 2 groups. Group I consisted of 41 patients who received EIS over a mean period of 2.2 sessions and Group II consisted of 33 patients who underwent EIS and subsequent surgical intervention, in the form of 19 distal splenorenal shunts and 14 nonshunting procedures. The overall percentage of patients in whom initial control of variceal bleeding was achieved was 91.8 per cent. Four of the Group II patients were saved by emergency nonshunting operations. Rebleeding was experienced by 4 (28.6 per cent) of the 14 patients who underwent nonshunting surgery but by only 1 (5.3 per cent) of the 19 patients who underwent selective shunt surgery. The cumulative survival in Group II was significantly superior to that in Group I with 2 year survival being achieved in 66.7 per cent of the Group II patients but in only 23 per cent of Group I patients. Thus, the combination of initial EIS and back-up surgical intervention may be more beneficial than sclerotherapy alone for patients with acute variceal bleeding, while, the distal splenorenal shunt may be a more suitable surgical technique for patients having previously EIS.

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