INJECTION SCLEROTHERAPY OF ESOPHAGEAL-VARICES FOR PATIENTS UNDERGOING EMERGENCY AND ELECTIVE SURGERY

  • 1 January 1982
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 92  (3) , 474-479
Abstract
From Oct. 1977 to Sept. 1981, 68 patients with esophageal varices (30 emergency cases of bleeding and 38 elective cases) were treated by injecting 5% ethanolamine oleate into varices, using an esophagofiberscope. Esophageal bleeding was successfully controlled in 29 of 30 patients who had emergency surgery. None of the 38 patients who underwent elective operation had bleeding after treatment. When recurrence occurred 1 or 2 yr after treatment, the same procedure was repeated. Pleuritis occurred in 1 of the patients who had emergency surgery, and bleeding (300-400 ml) from the esophagocardial junction occurred in 2 patients who underwent elective operation. These patients were treated conservatively.