Secondary Prophylaxis of Gastric Variceal Bleed

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-01-07
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to study the efficacy of endoscopic cyanoacrylate injection versus balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration in the prevention of gastric variceal rebleeding and improvement in survival.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: West China Hospital
• Treatments: Polidocanol

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Cirrhosis

2. Patients who had bled from GOV2 or IGV1（≥5 days and ≤ 28days）

3. Presence of gastrorenal shunt

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Previous treatment of gastric varices, including endoscopic therapy, NSBB, TIPS, or surgery

2. Non-cirrhotic portal hypertension

3. Contraindications to cyanoacrylate injection or BRTO

4. Portal cavernoma

5. Hepatorenal syndrome

6. Proven malignancy including hepatocellular carcinoma

7. End-stage renal disease under renal replacement therapy;

8. Cardiorespiratory failure

9. Pregnancy or patients not giving informed consent for endoscopic procedures