Recent developments in the medical treatment of emergency cirrhotic hemorrhage. Vasopressin and glipressin, prostaglandins, somatostatin, propranolol, cimetidine and ranitidine
Masciariello, S.; Santini, M.; Casucci, R.; Sodo, M.; Aprea, G.
Minerva Medica 74(38): 2189-2195
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-4806 PMID: 6139772 Document Number: 208073
Haemorrhages in the course of cirrhosis and portal hypertension are surgical emergencies. Nevertheless medical treatment may be necessary both to revive the patient and temporarily to check the haemorrhaging itself. Some views are presented on the use of drugs, both those already in clinical use and others at the experimental stage, which appear to be effective in the treatment of haemorrhaging in portal hypertension (Vasopressin, glypressin, prostaglandin, somatostatin, propranolol, cimetidine and ranitidine).