Background and Aims: Recent progress in the treatment of variceal bleeding might have reduced the impact of variceal bleeding on survival in patients with esophageal varices. We conducted a ...

Bleeding esophageal varices, portal hypertension. Section on surgical treatment in collaboration with Louis M. Rousselot. With a foreword by Allen O. Whipple.

This study shows that the incidence of hepatic encephalopathy was lower in cirrhotic patients with upper gastrointestinal bleed treated with lactulose as compared with patients not treated with ...