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Complications in patients with cancer or cirrhosis, and patients without cancer and cirrhosis |
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| Analysis |
Patients with cancer or cirrhosis N = 19 |
Patients without cancer and cirrhosis N = 48 |
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| Presentation |
Presentation |
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| Acute |
Chronic |
N (% of total) |
Acute |
Chronic |
N (% of total) |
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| Portal hypertensive gastropathy |
4 (40%) |
3 (33%) |
7 (37%) |
5 (29%) |
16 (52%) |
21 (44%) |
| Gastric varices |
4 (40%) |
4 (44%) |
8 (42%) |
4 (24%) |
16 (52%) |
20 (42%) |
| Oesophageal varices, small |
4 (40%) |
6 (67%) |
10 (53%) |
7 (41%) |
18 (58%) |
25 (52%) |
| Oesophageal varices, large |
1 (10%) |
1 (11%) |
2 (11%) |
1 (6%) |
10 (32%) |
1 (23%) |
| Haemorrhages (1–2) |
2 (20%) |
4 (44%) |
6 (32%) |
0 |
10 (32%) |
10 (21%) |
| Haemorrhages (repeated) |
3 (30%) |
1 (11%) |
4 (21%) |
0 |
4 (13%) |
4 (8%) |
| Ascites |
4 (40%) |
4 (44%) |
8 (42%) |
8 (47%) |
12 (39%) |
20 (42%) |
| Total |
10 (53%) |
9 (47%) |
19 (100%) |
17 (35%) |
31 (65%) |
51 (100%) |
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*Data are presented as N of total number and % within acute/chronic presentation. | ||||||
Sogaard et al. BMC Gastroenterology 2007 7:34 doi:10.1186/1471-230X-7-34 |
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