The treatment of achalasia patients with esophageal varices: an international study.

M PesceC MageeR H HollowayChandra Prakash GyawaliS RomanM PiocheE SavarinoF QuaderGiovanni SarnelliS SanagapalliA J BredenoordR Sweis

Published in: United European gastroenterology journal (2019)

This study shows an excellent short-term symptomatic response in patients with esophageal achalasia and varices and demonstrates that the therapeutic outcomes and complications, other than transient encephalopathy in both patients who had a portosystemic shunt, did not differ to disease-matched patients without varices.

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