Cirrhosis is an increasing cause of morbidity and mortality in more developed countries,
being the 14th most common cause of death worldwide but fourth in central Europe …

Portal hypertension is a severe, almost unavoidable complication of chronic liver diseases
and is responsible for the main clinical consequences of cirrhosis. Measurement of the …

This Practice Guidance from the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease
(AASLD) intends to coalesce best practice recommendations for the identification of portal …

This guidance provides a data-supported approach to risk stratification, diagnosis, and
management of patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension (PH). A guidance document …

These updated guidelines on the management of variceal haemorrhage have been
commissioned by the Clinical Services and Standards Committee (CSSC) of the British …

Portal hypertension is a common complication of chronic liver diseases and is responsible
for most clinical consequences of cirrhosis, which represent the more frequent causes of …

Background & Aims Patients with cirrhosis and variceal hemorrhage have a high risk of
rebleeding. We performed a prospective randomized trial to compare the prevention of …

Nonselective β‐blockers are useful to prevent bleeding in patients with cirrhosis and large
varices but not to prevent the development of varices in those with compensated cirrhosis …

The development of portal hypertension is a common consequence of chronic liver diseases
leading to the formation of esophageal and gastric varices responsible for variceal bleeding …

Background & Aims Wedge hepatic vein pressure (WHVP) accurately estimates portal
pressure (PP) in alcohol-or viral hepatitis-related cirrhosis. Whether this also holds true in …