A strategy for treating gastric varices that borrows from interventional radiology appears highly effective at controlling bleeding, researchers have found. The endoscopic approach involves coil embolization and injection of an absorbable gelatin sponge.
“We think the strategy is both more effective and easier to perform than injection of cyanoacrylate glue. Complications so far have been less common with this approach,” said Ahmad Bazarbashi, MD, a GI fellow at Brigham and