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Case Reports
. 2008 Oct;18(10):641-3.
doi: 10.2008/JCPSP.641643.

Successful treatment of watermelon stomach / GAVE syndrome by using argon plasma coagulation

Muhammad Afzal Bhatti  1 , Anwaar A Khan, Altaf Alam, Arshad K Butt, Farzana Shafqat, Kashif Malik
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Successful treatment of watermelon stomach / GAVE syndrome by using argon plasma coagulation

Muhammad Afzal Bhatti et al. J Coll Physicians Surg Pak. 2008 Oct.

Abstract

This case report describes a 50-year-old female patient with liver cirrhosis presented with anemia. She was found to be suffering from gastric antral vascular ectasia (watermelon stomach) on upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. She underwent multiple sessions with Argon plasma coagulation, a non-contact thermal method of hemostasis for the management of watermelon stomach. After 3 sessions, the lesions disappeared and the hemoglobin increased by 2.4 gm/dl without any need of transfusion.

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