Initial treatment approaches for nodular gastric antral vascular ectasia: A comparison of endoscopic band ligation and thermal therapies

Table 3 Comparison of performance metrics of initial endoscopic band and initial endoscopic thermal therapy

	Initial EBL	Initial ETT	P value
Number	21	16
Treatment interval (days)	172	928	0.007
Number of EGDs	1.95	5.56	0.005
Treatments
EBL	1.67	1.19	0.349
No. bands deployed	1.85	1.92	0.063
RFA	0.05	1.12	0.010
APC	0.29	1.5	0.026
Hemoglobin
Pre-treatment	8.7	8.6	0.949
Post-treatment	11.4	10.4	0.195
Transfusions
Pre-treatment	1.04	0.33	0.176
Post-treatment	1.29	0.08	0.255
Hospitalizations
Pre-treatment	1.15	0.15	0.630
Post-treatment	2.15	0.25	0.092
Clinical remission rate	90%	69%	0.041
Endoscopic remission rate	57.1%	37.5%	0.270

EBL: Endoscopic band ligation; ETT: Endoscopic thermal therapy; EGD: Esophagogastroduodenoscopy; RFA: Radiofrequency ablation; APC: Argon plasma coagulation.