Endoscopic injection sclerotherapy in the treatment of bleeding oesophageal varices in patients with portal hypertension due to alcohol-induced cirrhosis : an assessment of acute control of bleeding, prevention of recurrent bleeding and prognostic factors predicting early variceal rebleeding and death

The ideal treatment of portal hypertension and bleeding varices should be universally effective, safe, easy to administer and inexpensive. Currently no such treatment exists and the surgeon or physician is obliged to select the most appropriate intervention from a menu of currently available therape...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krige, J E J
Other Authors: Bornman, P C
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22099