Endoscopic Sclerotherapy and/or Ligation Versus Portacaval Shunt for Bleeding Gastric Varices

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Gastric Bleeding, Cirrhosis

In brief

In unselected cirrhotic patients with bleeding gastric varices to compare the influence on mortality rate, duration of life, control of bleeding, quality of life, and economic costs of treatment of: portacaval shunt, endoscopic variceal sclerotherapy and/or variceal ligation.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00820781

Run by

University of California, San Diego

People needed

518

Starts

1977-08-01

Expected to finish

2003-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2009-01-12

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• All patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding (blood in the upper gastrointestinal tract) of a magnitude that required 2 or more units of blood transfusion and entered the emergency room directly, or were referred from an area hospital, or developed bleeding while in the hospital, and were shown to have cirrhosis of the liver, and were shown by endoscopy to have bleeding gastric varices, absence of bleeding from esophageal varices, and absence of any other lesion that could reasonably account for the bleeding were included ("all comers").

You may not qualify if…

• None

Where it is running

• UCSD Medical Center — San Diego, California, United States

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