A randomized-controlled trial of endoscopic treatment of acute esophageal variceal hemorrhage: N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate injection vs. variceal ligation.

Abstract

The efficacy of endoscopic injection therapy with N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate to control acute esophageal variceal hemorrhage showed no difference to endoscopic variceal ligation nor did the esophageal variceal re-bleeding rate and mortality rate.