Intestinal varices

Intestinal varices
Intestinal varices
Specialty	Gastroenterology Hematology
Symptoms	Coffee ground vomiting Hematochezia
Complications	Internal bleeding, hypovolemic shock, cardiac arrest

Intestinal varices are dilated submucosal veins in the intestine.^{[citation needed]}One treatment includes a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt.^[1]

References

^ Haskal ZJ, Scott M, Rubin RA, Cope C (April 1994). "Intestinal varices: treatment with the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt". Radiology. 191 (1): 183–7. doi:10.1148/radiology.191.1.8134568. PMID 8134568.

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