An endoclip for life?

摘要

A 48-year-old man with cirrhosis (Child score C) due to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis that was complicated by prior variceal bleeding presented to our institution with melena. The patient had gastric variceal bleeding 22 months before the current presentation, at which time he had an endoclip placed on the bleeding gastric varix before transfer to our institution (A).