Endoscopic band ligation: a novel therapy for bleeding gastric antral vascular ectasia

Rakesh Kumar, Samir Mohindra, Himanshu Pruthi

Endoscopy · 2007 · 20 citations · 0 references

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We report the first case of bleeding gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) treated successfully by endoscopic band ligation after failure of argon plasma coagulation (APC) to achieve hemostasis.