Reply to: "Carvedilol in patients with compensated cirrhosis: The ongoing benefits of definitive randomised trials over meta-analysis in patients with small varices"

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¹ Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08025 Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Spain. Electronic address: cvillanueva@santpau.cat.
² Medical Statistics Core Facility, IDIBAPS, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain; Biostatistics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
³ University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK; Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁴ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Spain; Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland; Hospital Clinic-IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

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Càndid Villanueva et al. J Hepatol. 2023 Jul.

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. 2023 Jul;79(1):e23-e24.

doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2023.02.025. Epub 2023 Feb 25.

¹ Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08025 Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Spain. Electronic address: cvillanueva@santpau.cat.
² Medical Statistics Core Facility, IDIBAPS, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain; Biostatistics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
³ University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK; Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁴ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Spain; Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland; Hospital Clinic-IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

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Carvedilol in patients with compensated cirrhosis: The ongoing benefits of definitive randomised trials over meta-analysis in patients with small varices.
McPhail MJW, Patel VC, Carter B. McPhail MJW, et al. J Hepatol. 2023 Jul;79(1):e21-e23. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2022.12.019. Epub 2022 Dec 31. J Hepatol. 2023. PMID: 36596383 No abstract available.