Hindawi Publishing Corporation Gastroenterology Research and Practice Volume 2013, Article ID 619187, 7 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/619187 Clinical Study EUS-Assisted Evaluation of Rectal Varices before Banding Malay Sharma,1 Praveer Rai,2 and Raghav Bansal3 1 Department of Gastroenterology, Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital, Saket, Meerut, PIN-250 001 Uttar Pradesh, India 2 SGPGI, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India 3 Gastroenterology Fellow, Mount Sinai Elmhurst Hospital Center, 80-15 41 Avenue Apt 741, Elmhurst, NY 11373, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Malay Sharma;
[email protected] Received 22 February 2013; Accepted 16 March 2013 Academic Editor: Everson L. A. Artifon Copyright © 2013 Malay Sharma et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Rectal varices are an important cause of bleed. The bleeding can be sometimes fatal. Endoscopic management is possible and is generally done in emergency situation. Rectal variceal banding is useful. Hemodynamic evaluation has shown that the blood flow in rectal varices is from above downwards; however, the site of banding of rectal varices is unclear. This case series shows that the rectal varices should be banded at the highest point of inflow. 1. Introduction from varices, which are endoscopically inevident (EIERV). Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) has been shown to be more Rectal varices (RVs) are an important cause of lower gastroin- sensitive in diagnosis of EIERV [8–10]. Endoscopic and testinalbleed(LGIB)inportalhypertension(PHT)andhave EUS correlation of RVs has shown that RVs, classified as been reported to occur in 44% to 89% of cases of cirrhosis [1– tortuous, nodular, and tumorous on endoscopic examination, 3].