Long-term outcomes of patients with cirrhosis presenting with bleeding gastric varices

AIM: To establish a therapeutic strategy for cirrhosis patients with gastric variceal bleeding.

METHODS: The outcomes of 137 patients with bleeding gastric varices were evaluated.

RESULTS: The bleeding source was gastroesophageal varices (GOV) in 86 patients, and gastric fundal varices (FV) in 51 patients. The Child-Turcotte-Pugh classes were A, B, and C in 26, 79, and 32 patients, respectively; 34 patients (24.8%) had hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), of which 11 also had complicating portal venous tumor thrombosis (PVTT). Patients with GOV were treated by endoscopic variceal ligation or endoscopic injection sclerotherapy (EIS) with ethanolamine oleate, while those with FV were treated by EIS with cyanoacrylate; 29 patients with FV also underwent additional balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO). Hemostasis was successfully achieved in 136 patients (99.3%), and the cumulative 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year rebleeding rates were 18.1%, 30.8%, and 30.8%, respectively, in the patients with GOV, and 2.2%, 12.5% and 12.5%, respectively, in the patients with FV. The overall 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year survival rates were 79.7%, 71.5% and 64.4%, respectively, in the patients with GOV, and 91.0%, 76.9% and 59.5%, respectively, in the patients with FV. Multivariable analysis identified PVTT and alcoholic cirrhosis as a significant risk factor associated with rebleeding, model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score and PVTT as significant factors associated with survival.

CONCLUSIONS: Endoscopic therapies with or without BRTO appeared to be useful therapeutic strategies to prevent rebleeding in patients with gastric variceal bleeding, and favorable outcomes were obtained, except in patients with underlying HCC associated with PVTT and/or severe liver damage.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

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PloS one - 17(2022), 3 vom: 15., Seite e0264359

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nakazawa, Manabu [VerfasserIn]
Imai, Yukinori [VerfasserIn]
Sugawara, Kayoko [VerfasserIn]
Uchida, Yoshihito [VerfasserIn]
Saitoh, Yoichi [VerfasserIn]
Fujii, Yohei [VerfasserIn]
Uchiya, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]
Ando, Satsuki [VerfasserIn]
Nakayama, Nobuaki [VerfasserIn]
Tomiya, Tomoaki [VerfasserIn]
Mochida, Satoshi [VerfasserIn]

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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 21.04.2022

Date Revised 21.04.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1371/journal.pone.0264359

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NLM338210741