Endoscopic injection sclerotherapy for 1,000 patients with esophageal varices: A nine‐year prospective study
Makoto Hashizume, Seigo Kitano, Nobuhiro Koyanagi, Kazuo Tanoue, Masayuki Ohta, Hiroya Wada, Hirohiko Yamaga, Hidefumi Higashi, Yasunori Iso, Tetsuya Iwanaga, Keizo Sugimachi – 1 January 1992 – We report here the results of endoscopic injection sclerotherapy performed in 1,000 consecutively treated Japanese patients with esophageal varices. This prospective study covered the period from 1982 to 1990. Variceal bleeding was controlled in 215 (97.7%) of 220 patients. Esophageal varices were completely eradicated in 778 patients (77.8%); the mean number of sessions was 4.2.