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Descriptor English: Esophageal and Gastric Varices
Descriptor Spanish: Várices Esofágicas y Gástricas
Descriptor varices esofágicas y gástricas
Entry term(s) varices esofágicas
varices gástricas
Scope note: Dilatación de los vasos sanguíneos del ESÓFAGO o FUNDUS GÁSTRICO que derivan sangre de la circulación portal (SISTEMA PORTA) a la circulación general. Se producen con frecuencia en los individuos con HIPERTENSIÓN PORTAL.
Descriptor Portuguese: Varizes Esofágicas e Gástricas
Descriptor French: Varices oesophagiennes et gastriques
Entry term(s): Esophageal Varices
Esophageal Varix
Gastric Varices
Gastric Varix
Varices, Esophageal
Varices, Gastric
Varix, Esophageal
Varix, Gastric
Tree number(s): C06.405.117.240
C06.552.494.414
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004932
Scope note: Dilated blood vessels in the ESOPHAGUS or GASTRIC FUNDUS that shunt blood from the portal circulation (PORTAL SYSTEM) to the systemic venous circulation. Often they are observed in individuals with portal hypertension (HYPERTENSION, PORTAL).
Annotation: do not specify esophageal or gastric aspect unless particularly discussed; hemorrhaging esophageal or gastric varices: coordinate with HEMORRHAGE, GASTROINTESTINAL
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 85; was ESOPHAGEAL VARICES 1963-84
Online Note: use ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES to search ESOPHAGEAL VARICES 1966-84
History Note: 85; was ESOPHAGEAL VARICES 1963-84
Entry Version: ESOPHAGEAL GASTRIC VARICES
DeCS ID: 23995
Unique ID: D004932
NLM Classification: WI 255
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Date Established: 1985/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2004/07/07
Esophageal and Gastric Varices - Preferred
Concept UI M0007742
Scope note Dilated blood vessels in the ESOPHAGUS or GASTRIC FUNDUS that shunt blood from the portal circulation (PORTAL SYSTEM) to the systemic venous circulation. Often they are observed in individuals with portal hypertension (HYPERTENSION, PORTAL).
Preferred term Esophageal and Gastric Varices
Gastric Varix - Narrower
Concept UI M0007744
Preferred term Gastric Varix
Entry term(s) Gastric Varices
Varices, Gastric
Varix, Gastric
Esophageal Varices - Narrower
Concept UI M0007743
Preferred term Esophageal Varices
Entry term(s) Esophageal Varix
Varices, Esophageal
Varix, Esophageal



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