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| C VillanuevaSummaryAffiliation: Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau Country: Spain Publications
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Endoscopic ligation compared with combined treatment with nadolol and isosorbide mononitrate to prevent recurrent variceal bleedingC Villanueva
Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
N Engl J Med 345:647-55. 2001..We compared two treatments to prevent recurrent bleeding--endoscopic ligation and combined medical therapy with nadolol and isosorbide mononitrate...
Somatostatin alone or combined with emergency sclerotherapy in the treatment of acute esophageal variceal bleeding: a prospective randomized trialC Villanueva
Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
Hepatology 30:384-9. 1999..Patients with shock and those with active bleeding are more likely to benefit from this combined therapy...
Clinical trial: a randomized controlled study on prevention of variceal rebleeding comparing nadolol + ligation vs. hepatic venous pressure gradient-guided pharmacological therapyC Villanueva
Gastrointestinal Bleeding Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Autonomous University, Barcelona, Spain
Aliment Pharmacol Ther 29:397-408. 2009..Hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG) monitoring of therapy to prevent variceal rebleeding provides strong prognostic information. Treatment of nonresponders to beta-blockers +/- nitrates has not been clarified...
Nadolol plus isosorbide mononitrate alone or associated with band ligation in the prevention of recurrent bleeding: a multicentre randomised controlled trialJ C Garcia-Pagan
Hepatic Hemodynamic Laboratory, Liver Unit, Institut de Malalties Digestives i Metaboliques, Hospital Clinic, Institut de Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
Gut 58:1144-50. 2009..The present study was aimed at evaluating this issue in a multicentre randomised controlled trial (RCT) and to correlate changes in hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG) during treatment with clinical outcomes..
Somatostatin treatment and risk stratification by continuous portal pressure monitoring during acute variceal bleedingC Villanueva
Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Avgda Sant Antoni Ma Claret, 167, 08025 Barcelona, Spain
Gastroenterology 121:110-7. 2001..Whether somatostatin can suppress these increments is unknown. This study monitored somatostatin effects on HVPG during acute bleeding and assessed whether the changes affect outcome...
Isosorbide mononitrate in the prevention of first variceal bleed in patients who cannot receive beta-blockersJ C Garcia-Pagan
Hepatic Hemodynamic Laboratory, Liver Unit, IMD, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Gastroenterology 121:908-14. 2001..The present study evaluates whether isosorbide-5-mononitrate (Is-MN) effectively prevents variceal bleeding in patients with contraindications or who could not tolerate beta-blockers...
Risk of upper gastrointestinal bleeding and the degree of serotonin reuptake inhibition by antidepressants: a case-control studyXavier Vidal
Department of Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Toxicology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Passeig Vall d Hebron 129 139, Barcelona, Spain
Drug Saf 31:159-68. 2008..We present the results related to the use of antidepressants by the degree of serotonin reuptake inhibition they induce, the selectivity at monoamine transporters and the dose...
Magnetic resonance anatomic study of iliocava junction and left iliac vein positions related to L5-S1 discJ Capellades
Magnetic Resonance Unit, Department of Radiology, Hospital Vall d Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 25:1695-700. 2000..An in vivo anatomic study analyzing the venous anatomy in the lumbosacral area was performed...
[Combined treatments for esophageal varices]C Villanueva
Gastroenterol Hepatol 26:514-23. 2003
Squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: ESMO clinical recommendations for diagnosis, treatment and follow-upX Pivot
Ann Oncol 18:ii65-6. 2007
