Antacids for preventing oesophagogastric variceal bleeding and rebleeding in cirrhotic patients

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
J YangY Wang

Abstract

Ruptured gastroesophageal varices are the most severe and frequent cause of gastrointestinal bleeding in cirrhotic patients, leading to death in 5% to 8% of patients during the first 48 hours and oesophagogastric varices account for 60% to 80% of first bleeding in patients with portal hypertension. Antacids are often used for emergency treatment of bleeding oesophageal varices in patients with cirrhosis of the liver. To evaluate the beneficial and harmful effects of antacids for preventing oesophagogastric bleeding and rebleeding. We identified relevant randomised clinical trials by searching The Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group Controlled Trials Register (June 2007), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) in The Cochrane Library (Issue 2, 2007), MEDLINE (1950 to June 2007), EMBASE (Excerpta Medica Database) (1980 to June 2007), and the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) (1945 to June 2007). Additional randomised trials were sought from the reference lists of the trials found and reviews identified by the electronic searches. We planned to include randomised clinical trials. We planned to summarise data using Cochrane Collaboration methodologies. We could not find any randomised clinical trials on...Continue Reading

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May 13, 2015·The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews·Eddy Ríos CastellanosXavier Bonfill Cosp
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