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Balloon Tamponade

Known as: Balloon Tamponades, Tamponade, Balloon, Tamponades, Balloon 
The use of an inflatable sac to apply pressure in a lumen to stop the flow of blood or hemorrhage.
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Highly Cited
2017
Highly Cited
2017
Intrauterine Balloon Tamponade for Severe Postpartum Hemorrhage.
OBJECTIVE To compare the rates of invasive procedures (surgical or vascular) for hemorrhage control between a perinatal network… 
Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
Foley balloon catheter to prevent or manage bleeding during treatment for cervical and Cesarean scar pregnancy
To demonstrate the efficacy of placement and inflation of Foley balloon catheters prophylactically to prevent, or as an adjuvant… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Application of uterine compression suture in association with intrauterine balloon tamponade (‘uterine sandwich’) for postpartum hemorrhage
We evaluated in a prospective observational study the use of a ‘uterine sandwich’ technique (uterine compression sutures in… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Foley Catheter Balloon Tamponade for Life-threatening Hemorrhage in Penetrating Neck Trauma
BackgroundFoley catheter (FC) balloon tamponade is a well-recognized technique employed to arrest hemorrhage from penetrating… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration of gastric fundal varices with hemorrhage.
OBJECTIVE This study was performed to evaluate the clinical efficacy, feasibility, and complications of balloon-occluded… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Emergency endoscopic ligation of actively bleeding gastric varices with a detachable snare.
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Endoscopic sphincterotomy-induced hemorrhage: treatment with multipolar electrocoagulation.
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Terlipressin vs. Somatostatin in bleeding esophageal varices: A controlled, double‐blind study
Fifty episodes of bleeding from esophageal or gastric varices in 33 patients with cirrhosis were randomized to treatment with… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Endoscopic sclerotherapy in the management of gastric variceal haemorrhage.
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
A randomized trial of terlipressin plus nitroglycerin vs. balloon tamponade in the control of acute variceal hemorrhage
A randomized trial was undertaken to determine the efficacy of nitroglycerin in addition to terlipressin infusion to improve the… 
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