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    J Coll Physicians Surg Pak. 2008 Oct;18(10):641-3.

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

    Bhatti MA, Khan AA, Alam A, Butt AK, Shafqat F, Malik K.

    Department of Gastroenterology, Sheikh Zayed Hospital, FPGMI, Lahore. afzalbhatti@hotmail.com

    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.

    PMID: 18940124 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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