The risk of complications of endoscopic procedures in patients with liver cirrhosis

Krzysztof Simon; Iwona Orłowska; Monika Pazgan-Simon

doi:10.5114/ceh.2017.70284

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Clinical and Experimental Hepatology

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Review paper

The risk of complications of endoscopic procedures in patients with liver cirrhosis

Krzysztof Simon

,

Iwona Orłowska

,

Monika Pazgan-Simon

Clin Exp HEPATOL 2017; 3, 3: 135-140

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/ceh.2017.70284

Online publish date: 2017/09/25

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Endoscopy methods involve diagnostics as well as therapy. Endoscopic techniques have a small but definite incidence of complication, so endoscopy should not be performed routinely but only on the basis of indication. The typical endoscopic procedures used in diagnostics and therapy of liver cirrhosis are endoscopy of upper and lower gastrointestinal tract. Other techniques are less common. Significance of endoscopy procedures increases in case of chronic progressive liver diseases, independently of etiology, where changes in gastrointestinal tract are observed in 87% of patients.

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The risk of complications of endoscopic procedures in patients with liver cirrhosis

Krzysztof Simon , Iwona Orłowska , Monika Pazgan-Simon

liver cirrhosis, esophagogastroduodenoscopy, colonoscopy, portal hypertension

Krzysztof Simon

,

Iwona Orłowska

,

Monika Pazgan-Simon