Letter: improve survival! Place early pre-emptive TIPSS in high-risk variceal bleeders-Authors' reply

Affiliations

¹ Liver Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
² Department of Gastroenterology, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK.
³ Department of Radiology, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁴ Department of Gastroenterology, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, UK.
⁵ Department of Radiology, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK.

Comment

Philip D J Dunne et al. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep;52(5):929-930.

doi: 10.1111/apt.15953.

¹ Liver Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
² Department of Gastroenterology, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK.
³ Department of Radiology, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁴ Department of Gastroenterology, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, UK.
⁵ Department of Radiology, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK.

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Randomised clinical trial: standard of care versus early-transjugular intrahepatic porto-systemic shunt (TIPSS) in patients with cirrhosis and oesophageal variceal bleeding.
Dunne PDJ, Sinha R, Stanley AJ, Lachlan N, Ireland H, Shams A, Kasthuri R, Forrest EH, Hayes PC. Dunne PDJ, et al. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2020 Jul;52(1):98-106. doi: 10.1111/apt.15797. Epub 2020 May 26. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2020. PMID: 32452561 Clinical Trial.
Letter: improve survival! Place early pre-emptive TIPSS in high-risk variceal bleeders.
García-Pagán JC, Bosch J, Trebicka J, Abraldes JG, Albillos A, Grønbaek H, Giráldez Á, Zipprich A, Bureau C, Hernández-Gea V; International Variceal Bleeding Observational Study Group, Baveno Cooperation. García-Pagán JC, et al. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2020 Sep;52(5):927-928. doi: 10.1111/apt.15926. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2020. PMID: 32852811 No abstract available.