Intestinal varices

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|specialty = Gastroenterology Hematology

|symptoms = Coffee ground vomiting Hematochezia

|complications = Internal bleeding, hypovolemic shock, cardiac arrest

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Intestinal varices are dilated submucosal veins in the intestine.{{cn|date=February 2021}}One treatment includes a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt.{{cite journal |vauthors=Haskal ZJ, Scott M, Rubin RA, Cope C |title=Intestinal varices: treatment with the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt |journal=Radiology |volume=191 |issue=1 |pages=183–7 |date=April 1994 |pmid=8134568 |doi= 10.1148/radiology.191.1.8134568}}