Background Patients with cirrhosis in Child–Pugh class C or those in class B who have
persistent bleeding at endoscopy are at high risk for treatment failure and a poor prognosis, even …

Portal hypertension is a severe, almost unavoidable complication of chronic liver diseases
and is responsible for the main clinical consequences of cirrhosis. Measurement of the …

Increased resistance to portal blood flow is the primary factor in the pathophysiology of portal
hypertension, and is mainly determined by the morphological changes occurring in chronic …

Context Variceal bleeding is the most frequent severe complication of portal hypertension
and a leading cause of death and liver transplantation in patients with cirrhosis. Patients …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Simvastatin improves liver generation of nitric oxide and hepatic
endothelial dysfunction in patients with cirrhosis, so it could be an effective therapy for portal …

To expand on the work of previous meetings, a virtual Baveno VII workshop was organised
for October 2021. Among patients with compensated cirrhosis or compensated advanced …

Liver biopsy is essential in the follow‐up of HCV‐infected liver transplant recipients. The
aim of this study was to prospectively compare percutaneous (PLB) versus transjugular liver …

Portal hypertension is a severe and frequent complication of chronic liver disease. Its
consequences, bleeding from gastroesophageal varices and portal hypertensive gastropathy, …

BACKGROUND/AIMS: In acute variceal bleeding (AVB) hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG)
is associated with prognosis. However, this has not been studied in patients receiving …

Background & Aims: Recurrence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a relevant problem of
liver transplantation programs. We evaluated the effect of antiviral therapy on disease …