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Endoscopic Assessment of Portal Hypertension Including Variceal Pressure Measurements

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Portal hypertension is a common complication in liver diseases that should be searched for in all cirrhotic patients, as well as in other chronic liver diseases (1). Its main clinical consequence is bleeding from ruptured esophageal or gastric varices, which constitutes the major cause of death and of liver transplantation in patients with cirrhosis, the leading etiology for portal hypertension.

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  1. Liver Unit, Institut de Malalties Digestives, Institut d’Investigacio Biomedica August Pi Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain

    Àngels Escorsell MD & Jaime Bosch MD

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  1. Division of Gastroenterology, Virginia Commonwealth Medical Center, Richmond, VA

    Arun J. Sanyal MBBS, MD

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    Vijay H. Shah MD

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Escorsell, À., Bosch, J. (2005). Endoscopic Assessment of Portal Hypertension Including Variceal Pressure Measurements. In: Sanyal, A.J., Shah, V.H. (eds) Portal Hypertension. Clinical Gastroenterology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-885-4_11

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