作者
Shiv Kumar Sarin, Ashish Kumar, Peter W Angus, Sanjay Saran Baijal, Soon Koo Baik, Yusuf Bayraktar, Yogesh Kumar Chawla, Gourdas Choudhuri, Jin Wook Chung, Roberto De Franchis, H Janaka De Silva, Hitendra Garg, Pramod Kumar Garg, Ahmed Helmy, Ming-Chih Hou, Wasim Jafri, Ji-Dong Jia, George K Lau, Chang-Zheng Li, Hock Foong Lui, Hitoshi Maruyama, Chandra Mohan Pandey, Amrender S Puri, Rungsun Rerknimitr, Peush Sahni, Anoop Saraya, Barjesh Chander Sharma, Praveen Sharma, Gamal Shiha, Jose D Sollano, Justin Wu, Rui Yun Xu, Surender Kumar Yachha, Chunqing Zhang, Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) Working Party on Portal Hypertension
发表日期
2011/6
来源
Hepatology international
卷号
5
页码范围
607-624
出版商
Springer-Verlag
简介
Background
Acute variceal bleeding (AVB) is a medical emergency and associated with a mortality of 20% at 6 weeks. Significant advances have occurred in the recent past and hence there is a need to update the existing consensus guidelines. There is also a need to include the literature from the Eastern and Asian countries where majority of patients with portal hypertension (PHT) live.
Methods
The expert working party, predominantly from the Asia–Pacific region, reviewed the existing literature and deliberated to develop consensus guidelines. The working party adopted the Oxford system for developing an evidence-based approach. Only those statements that were unanimously approved by the experts were accepted.
Results
AVB is defined as a bleed in a known or suspected case of PHT, with the presence of …
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