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In this chapter we report the results of a questionnaire circulated among the faculty of the Baveno VI portal hypertension consensus workshop in January 2015. When possible, the results were compared to those of a similar questionnaire that was circulated 5 years before as a preparation to the previous edition of the consensus workshop. The answers were used to unravel opinions among the experts in portal hypertension, which were further discussed during the workshop.
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Merkel, C., Krag, A. (2016). Result of the Questionnaire. In: de Franchis, R. (eds) Portal Hypertension VI. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23018-4_20
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