| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Endoscopic variceal ligationEVL is the preferred endoscopic therapy in acute esophageal variceal bleeding.[8, 15] It has superiority over sclerotherapy in all major outcomes (recurrent bleeding, local complications including ulceration and stricture formation, time to variceal obliteration, and survival).This procedure is based on the widely used technique of rubber-band ligation of hemorrhoids.
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