Sleeve gastrectomy is a common bariatric surgery in which most of the gastric corpus is removed. Here, the authors show the adaptation of the gastric mucosa to surgery in patients, and how it ...

All of the trials on TIPS and surgical shunts discussed above include a certain number of patients with gastric varices in their study population, and they report similar results of treatment ...

The SEER database tracks 5-year relative survival rates for stomach cancer (also known as gastric cancer) in the United States, based on how far the cancer has spread. The SEER database, however, does ...

Changes clinical practice: Patients with portal hypertension and large gastric varices (>/=10mm size), either isolated or associated with esophageal varices, should undergo primary prophylaxis.