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Management of acute variceal hemorrhage

2019-06-25

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Gastrointestinal bleeding is one of the major causes of death in patients with cirrhosis, and gastroesophageal varices represent the main source of hemorrhage. Even though in the last decades survival has been improved because of the widespread adoption of effective treatments and optimization of general medical care, mortality is still significantly high, and decompensated patients pose a complex challenge requir...

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Literature Corpus work: b052deed-6a85-5386-8a5a-bb61f7956a99
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.18807.1

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