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CASE REPORT
Therapeutic options for bleeding oesophageal varices: cyanoacrylate and balloon-occluded retrograde obliteration (BRTO)
  1. Helena L Frischtak1,
  2. Jessica P Davis2,
  3. Neeral L Shah2
  1. 1School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
  2. 2Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
  1. Correspondence to Professor Neeral L Shah, ns3zt{at}virginia.edu

Summary

A 56-year-old male with cirrhosis presented with acute bleeding from cardiofundal gastroesophageal varices (GOV) and was treated with endoscopic cyanoacrylate glue. Glue therapy achieved stabilisation of the patient in the emergent setting. Three months later, the patient suffered rebleeding. At that time, he underwent retreatment with balloon-occluded retrograde obliteration (BRTO), with no recurrence at a follow-up of 14 months.

Available treatments for bleeding GOV include methods to (a) directly obstruct the varices (endoscopic variceal ligation , sclerotherapy and cyanoacrylate glue, BRTO) or to (b) decrease portal pressure (surgical portacaval shunts; transportal intrahepatic portosystemic shunt). No precise guidelines are available regarding when to use which modality, and few centres have experience with all of them. This case report illustrates a setting in which both options of cyanoacrylate glue therapy and BRTO were used for acute gastric variceal bleeding.

  • gastrointestinal system
  • liver disease
  • portal hypertension

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-219615

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors All the authors were responsible for the writing and editing of the manuscript. NLS was responsible for the development of the concept.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.