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General Internal Medicine
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Anemia
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Gastroenterology
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GI bleed
What is your preferred approach in treating recurrent bleeding from GAVE?
What role does TIPS play when other approaches have been exhausted?
Answer from: at Community Practice
If repeated APC has not helped, I ask our advanced endoscopists to perform RFA. If it is a nodular GAVE, then banding is another option.
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I have had 3 patients over last 3 years that failed APC. In each case, RFA was well tolerated and was definite therapy.
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