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Review Question - QID 213595

Esophageal/Gastric Varices Complications Esophageal or gastric varices QID: 213595 (M2.OMB.19.4743)
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QID 213595 (Type "213595" in App Search)
A 44-year-old man with a history of alcohol abuse, hepatitis C, and cirrhosis presents to the emergency department with bloody emesis. He has experienced multiple bouts of bloody emesis before, requiring hospitalization and ICU admission despite prophylactic treatment with nadolol. The patient is hemodynamically unstable and is thus appropriately stabilized and transferred to the ICU. He is ultimately discharged after being treated with fresh frozen plasma, multiple blood transfusions, ceftriaxone, and band ligation. Which of the following is a potential complication of the next most appropriate treatment for this patient?
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