Which patients with primary biliary cirrhosis or primary sclerosing cholangitis should undergo endoscopic screening for oesophageal varices detection?

Background: Recent guidelines from an AASLD Single Topic Symposium suggest that patients with cirrhosis, including those with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) or primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), should be screened for oesophageal varices when the platelet count is <140 000/mm(3). Aim: To dete...

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Hauptverfasser: Bressler, B, Pinto, R, El-Ashry, D, Heathcote, E J
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Copyright 2005 by Gut 2005
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1774414/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15710991
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gut.2004.040832
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