1986 Volume 28 Issue 6 Pages 1246-1253
From October 1977 through March, 336 cases of esophageal varices have been treated with injection sclerotherapy which have been established in our institute (endoscopic embolization). Main complication encountered in these 336 cases amounted to 12 cases (3.6%), which included 3 cases of esophageal stenosis, 2 hemorrhage due to erosion at the E-C junction, 2 renal dysfunction, 1 hemohydrothorax, 1 hemorrhage due to esophageal erosion, 1 hypotension, 1 esophageal varices bleeding, and 1 esophageal perforation. All patients with these complications, including a case of esophageal perforation, were cured through conservative therapy and discharged. Most of these complications were consid-ered to be due to a kind of technical failure. From the above it can be thought that if operation are performed with appropriate procedures and complication were treated satisfactorily, possible fatal risks of this procedure would be almost none.
