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ArticleMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2026

Argon Plasma Coagulation as Rescue Endoscopic Hemostasis for Acute Variceal Bleeding in Cirrhosis: A Retrospective Cohort Comparison with Band Ligation.

Ilie Marius Ciorba, Nicoleta Crăciun Ciorba, Simona Maria Bățagă

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Article in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. [Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of portal hypertensive gastrointestinal and bile duct disease].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ilie Marius CiorbaDepartment of Internal Medicine, "George Emil Palade" University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu Mureș, 540142 Târgu Mureș, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-3850-9008
Nicoleta Crăciun CiorbaDepartment of Internal Medicine, "George Emil Palade" University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu Mureș, 540142 Târgu Mureș, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-0863-3473
Simona Maria BățagăDepartment of Internal Medicine, "George Emil Palade" University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu Mureș, 540142 Târgu Mureș, Romania.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Argon Plasma CoagulationEsophageal and Gastric VaricesGastrointestinal HemorrhageHemostasis, EndoscopicLiver CirrhosisAgedCohort StudiesFemaleHumansLigationMaleMiddle AgedRetrospective StudiesTreatment Outcomeacute variceal bleedingargon plasma coagulationcirrhosisendoscopic band ligationmortalityrebleedingrisk stratification

Identifiers

PMID41901628
PMCPMC13027688

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