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Upper gastrointestinal bleed

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Therapy

Varices

Consider performing a porto-caval shunt a for patients who do not stop bleeding d  

Options include distal spleno-renal shunts a

Why?

  • Distal spleno-renal shunts reduce rebleeding, but have no clear effect on mortality. a
 

Expiry date: July 2003
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Author   A   Townsend , CM   Ball
Reviewer   L   Friedman
CAT Writers   A   Townsend , CM   Ball , CJ   Wotton