A new study casts doubt on international guidelines advising up to a week of prophylactic antibiotics in patients with cirrhosis and upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. Pooled data from 14 ...
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Current guidelines recommend 5 to 7 days of broad-spectrum antibiotic prophylaxis for upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with cirrhosis. In a systematic review and meta-analysis, shorter ...
In patients with cirrhosis and acute fundal variceal bleeding, the use of preemptive transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (p-TIPS) with a covered stent within 72 hours of initial bleeding ...
Esophagogastric varices accompanying cirrhosis are a significant cause of hemorrhagic morbidity and mortality. Primary prophylaxis of the initial bleeding episode would reduce the inpatient mortality ...