Evaluation of the Gallbladder Wall Thickening as a Non-invasive Predictor of Esophageal Varices in Cirrhotic Patients
Nora M. Shehata, Alsiagy A. AbdelAziz, Medhat Abd El-Megid & Yasser M. Hafez · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2021
Background: Liver cirrhosis represent the end stage of fibrosis that destroy normal liver parenchyma and leads to serious complication as portal hypertension which result in esophageal varices (EV), EV bleeding leads to high mortality, so repeated upper endoscopy needed to contro...
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10.9734/jammr/2021/v33i1230934