Patients with cirrhosis are at risk of esophageal hemorrhage. The efficacy of endoscopic variceal band ligation (EVBL) for the prophylaxis of initial hemorrhage in patients with cirrhosis is unclear.

A combined therapy of EVL and a nonselective β-blocker is an effective approach for the secondary prophylaxis of patients with variceal hemorrhages Patients with cirrhosis are susceptible to portal ...

All patients who underwent EVL for treatment of acute variceal bleeding followed by EVL for secondary prophylaxis and who subsequently developed recurrent variceal bleeding at the Mayo Clinic, ...

During the study period January 1995–May 2003, 216 patients suffered an acute esophageal variceal hemorrhage and underwent emergent EVL treatment with follow-up EVL to obliterate varices (secondary ...