The treatment of portal hypertension: A meta-analytic review

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Luigi Pagliaro · Ospedale Vincenzo Cervello

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Portal hypertension is a major complication of chronic liver disease. Its main clinical consequence, bleeding from ruptured esophagogastric varices, represents a dramatic medical emergency, with mortality rate ranging from 30% to 50%, and is one of the leading causes of death in patients with cirrhosis.'-'

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Liver Disease and Transplantation Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes

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Published in: Hepatology

Volume 22, Issue 1, pp. 332-354

DOI: 10.1002/hep.1840220145

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