Liver volume index predicts the risk of esophageal variceal hemorrhage in cirrhotic patients on propranolol prophylaxis

BACKGROUND/AIMS: Non-selective β-blockers (NSBBs) are used for primary prevention of esophageal variceal hemorrhage (VH) in patients with portal hypertension, but a significant number of patients develop VH while on NSBB therapy. In this study, we sought to determine whether liver volume can predict...

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Pubblicato in:Korean J Intern Med
Autori principali: Kim, Beom Hee, Chung, Jung Wha, Lee, Chung Seop, Jang, Eun Sun, Jeong, Sook-Hyang, Kim, Nayoung, Kim, Jin-Wook
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: The Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2019
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6823564/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30759966
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2018.120
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