Lack of difference among terlipressin, somatostatin, and octreotide in the control of acute gastroesophageal variceal hemorrhage

Yeon Seok Seo, Soo Young Park, Moon Young Kim, Ju Hyun Kim, Jun Yong Park, Hyung Joon Yim, Byoung Kuk Jang, Hong Soo Kim, Taeho Hahn, Byung Ik Kim, Jeong Heo, Hyonggin An, Won Young Tak, Soon Koo Baik, Kwang Hyub Han, Jae Seok Hwang, Sang Hoon Park, Mong Cho, Soon Ho Um – 10 January 2014 – Vasoactive drugs are recommended to be started as soon as possible in suspected variceal bleeding, even before diagnostic endoscopy. However, it is still unclear whether the therapeutic efficacies of the various vasoactive drugs used are comparable.

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