Reliability and safety of transnasal compared to conventional endoscopy for detecting oesophageal varices in cirrhotic patients.

Elio C Castro Filho Hugo PerazzoRaquel A P GuimaraesLilian MachadoFlavia F FernandesRenata M Perez

Published in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2018)

Unsedated transnasal endoscopy was safe and had an excellent accuracy and high interobserver agreement for detecting oesophageal varices and for identifying high-risk varices in cirrhotic patients.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
small bowel